Meta Key’s

  • Mike

    (@avagolf)


    1 week, 4 days ago

    Hi Guys, first off, AWESOME PLUGIN! We just started using it to help with custom filtering and it has been great. We do have a question however. We have created multiple Taxomy and now would like to start adding terms in a batch process to our thousands of products. We use a 3rd party plugin called PW Bulk Edit – which allows us to add terms (ex.in the case of a taxonomy) in a batch process using a single click.

    Unfortunately the custom Taxonomy we added do not display by default in the PW Bulk Editor plugin. We need to add these via adding custom code into our functions.php file. The instructions from the PW Bulk Edit Plugin author is listed here: https://www.pimwick.com/pw-faq/custom-fields/

    Basically what we require is the Meta Key for each of our custom taxonomies. Is the meta key the Taxonomy Key (see image below). Any help is greatly appreciated!

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  • kenoly

    (@kenoly)

    6 days, 12 hours ago

    Hi there,

    Thanks for reaching out, and glad to hear you’ve been enjoying the plugin.

    In this case, the value you’re looking for would not be a separate ACF-generated meta key.

    For Custom Taxonomies created in ACF, the identifier is the Taxonomy Key (slug) that you configured when creating the taxonomy. That is the value WordPress uses to register and reference the taxonomy.

    For example, if your taxonomy is configured as:

    Taxonomy Key: product_brand

    then product_brand is the identifier you would typically use when integrating with third-party tools.

    That said, PW Bulk Edit’s example appears to target custom fields stored as post meta, whereas taxonomies are handled differently in WordPress. You may want to confirm with PW Bulk Edit whether their custom column registration supports taxonomies specifically, rather than only post meta fields.

    Hope this helps!

    Thread Starter Mike

    (@avagolf)

    5 days, 9 hours ago

    You guys are the BEST!! Thank you so much! Based on your reply, we were able to get this figured out and custom taxonomies implemented into the PW Bulk Edit plugin. We are now able to do batch editing for these. THANK YOU!! You can mark this as closed.

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