There are functions for retrieving a term/category link (i.e. URL to the term archive page) and in the case of the default category taxonomy, you can use get_category_link(): <a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/361461/<?php echo esc_url( get_category_link( $category[0] ) ); ?>”><?php echo $category[0]->name; ?></a> For custom taxonomies, you’d use get_term_link().
This will check to see if there is a hierarchy and set all parent categories as checked. This function assumes that if there’s multiple categories already set, then don’t do the function, since the categories would be correct if multiples are set. function set_product_parent_categories( $post_id ) { $category = wp_get_post_terms( $post_id, ‘product_cat’ ); // If … Read more
After doing much more search… it looks like the save_post hook does not run after the post categories are updated so it will only show the categories that the post had before the update (or no categories for new posts). I found that I need to use this hook and then everything inside my function … Read more
just remove this line update_term_cache($affected_terms); and it works perfectly <?php /* Plugin Name: WPSE Crowded Cats Plugin URI: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/43419/how-do-i-create-a-way-for-users-to-assign-categories-to-a-post-from-the-frontend Description: Allow visitors to change categories of posts. Ready to use with custom taxonomies and post types. Version: 0.1 Author: WPSE Author URI: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/users/2110/maugly License: GPL2 */ add_action(‘plugins_loaded’,’wpse_init_crowd_cats_class’); function wpse_init_crowd_cats_class(){ new WPSECrowdCatsClass(); } class WPSECrowdCatsClass { … Read more
If you know the id of the category, this is how you can output a link to category. <a href=”<?php echo get_category_link( $idofcategory ); ?>” title=”Category Name”>Category Name</a> Check this : https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_category_link/ Above page also shows how you can get the category link from category name, in case if you don’t know id of the … Read more
WordPress generates category feeds automagically. See WordPress Feeds > Categories and Tags.
You can not enable that, it is not supported, on top of that there is no meta table for links 🙂 For one of my sites: http://populair.eu I wanted to put each link you see on there in a hierarchical category (obvious if you see the layout). But since it was not supported I put … Read more
Try creating a new instance of WP_Query and at the end use wp_reset_query(); like this: <?php $my_query = new WP_Query(); $paged = (get_query_var(‘paged’)) ? get_query_var(‘paged’) : 1; $my_query->query(‘cat=”. $id .”&posts_per_page=4&paged=’.$paged); while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?> <?php get_the_content() ?> <?php endwhile; ?> <?php if ( $my_query->max_num_pages > 1 ) : ?> <?php previous_posts_link( __( ‘Previous’, ‘themename’ … Read more
Not sure if there’s a specific function for this as i didn’t find anything with a quick search, but i went ahead and wrote a function to do the job, feel free to expand upon it or do whatever you like with it. List year archives for published posts of a type Code is provided … Read more
You can get the current posts category outside the loop by using the get_the_category function. http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_category When you have the actual category ( however you got it) you can use get_categories, specifically the ‘child_of’ parameter and pass it the parent cat ID. http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_categories Also have a look at wp_list_catagories, http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories#Display_or_Hide_the_List_Heading where you can do something … Read more