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1. ProductAnatomy
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   I'm using the following code to create a drop down box for a custom taxonomy search:

   Functions code:

   function get_terms_dropdown($taxonomies, $args){
   $myterms = get_terms($taxonomies, $args);
        $output ="<select name='TERM'>";
        foreach($myterms as $term){
             $root_url = get_bloginfo('url');
             $term_taxonomy=$term->taxonomy;
             $term_slug=$term->slug;
             $term_name =$term->name;
             $link = $term_slug;
             $output .="<option value='".$link."'>".$term_name." (".$term->count.") </option>";
        }
        $output .="</select>";
   return $output;
   }

   PHP code (placed in a php widget):

   <form action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>" method="get">
        <div>
   <?php
   $taxonomies = array('TAXONOMY NAME');
   $args = array('orderby'=>'name','hide_empty'=>true);
   $select = get_terms_dropdown($taxonomies, $args);
   
   $select = preg_replace("#<select([^>]*)>#", "<select$1 onchange='return this.form.submit()'>", $select);
   echo $select;
   ?>
        <noscript><div><input type="submit" value="Term Value" /></div></noscript>
        </div></form>

   When a term is selected from the list it sends the user to a page with a URL output like: domain.com/?TERM=term1

   How can i output this instead as: domain.com/TERM/term1

   I also only want this to return posts from a specific custom post type - is there an extra bit of code i can add to get this functioning for post_type='xyz' ?

   Thanks in advance,
   Rob

2. cabaj
   Member
   Posted 1 week ago #

   Any luck with this Rob?

3. ProductAnatomy
   Member
   Posted 4 days ago #

   Well the searching within a custom post type is relatively easy.

   I just used a code similar to the following code for my news post type (replace 'news' with the name of you custom post type:

   function search_filter() {
   global $blog_id;
   	if (is_post_type_archive ( 'news' ) || is_singular( 'news' )) {?>
   	<li class="nav_search"><form method="get" class="search_form" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/">
   		<p>
   			<input class="text_input" type="text" value="" name="s" id="s"/>
   			<input type="hidden" name="post_type" value="news" />
   		</p>
   	</form></li>
   	<?php }
   }
   add_action('$tag','search_filter');

   For the first part of my original question I believe there are a couple of ways to do this. Firstly you could use custom rewrite rules to rewrite the urls once they've been searched for - switching them from domain.com/?TERM=term1 to domain.com/taxonomyname/term1 (I'm not too familiar with rewrite rules I'm afraid).

   The second option is a little easier and would be to create the custom taxonomy with the archive slug as you would like them - domain.com/taxonomyname/term1 (set the slug to 'taxonomyname' when creating the taxonomy). Now when you search using the drop down, WordPress should automatically rewrite the urls to domain.com/taxonomyname/term1.

   Hope this helps

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