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Show parent category option

  • Resolved jromaine

    (@jromaine)


    3 years, 12 months ago

    Hi Daniel,
    Mate this is a great plugin, but I have a small problem with it. I’ve done a bit of research and I’m not sure how to solve this problem.

    I have a custom post type called “vehicle”

    These posts are essentially vehicle profile pages.

    For eg

    1965 XP Ford Falcon Coupe

    When creating a vehicle profile page, I might set the categories as follows

    FORD
    FALCON
    XP (parent category)

    When I do this, and I enable related posts, I’m seeing ALL vehicles listed under FALCON, and NOT just XP.

    Is there a way to show related categories on PARENT categories only?

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  • Plugin Author Daniel Floeter

    (@kometschuh)

    3 years, 12 months ago

    What do you mean with “…enable related posts …”?
    Which option do you mean?

    Greetings

    Thread Starter jromaine

    (@jromaine)

    3 years, 12 months ago

    Hi Daniel,
    Sorry, I meant same category posts. The widget in the sidebar.

    I’m seeing all vehicles listed under FALCON and not just XP.

    I’m just testing here on localhost, and have a vehicle assigned to

    – FORD
    — FALCON
    —- XP

    And for some reason the plugin is using FALCON as the same category. The parent category is XP

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 12 months ago by jromaine.
    Thread Starter jromaine

    (@jromaine)

    3 years, 12 months ago

    This might help you understand my issue.

    This vehicle is assigned to XP as the parent category.

    http://romaines.com.au/same-category1.gif

    Yet when I view this vehicle, i see vehicles listed under FORD AND FALCON AND XP.

    http://romaines.com.au/same-category2.gif

    Understand?

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 12 months ago by jromaine.
    • This reply was modified 3 years, 12 months ago by jromaine.
    Thread Starter jromaine

    (@jromaine)

    3 years, 12 months ago

    I guess what Im trying to say (apologies if Ive confused you) is that I would like an option to only show the parent category.

    Plugin Author Daniel Floeter

    (@kometschuh)

    3 years, 12 months ago

    A suggested solution for you is to define your own category and assign contributions to be summarized. Then by “Exclude” option to exclude other categories.

    I understand what you want but it is a very special wish. I would call it “customer task”.

    At the moment the widget shows all categories which assigned to one post, if child, parent or sibling.

    Really, thats why I talk about “customer feature”, do you need to show only from the “same” category or show from the same and the parent cateory … ? 😉

    Thread Starter jromaine

    (@jromaine)

    3 years, 12 months ago

    Daniel,
    For this, I would only like to show the parent category.

    For anything else, I will use a second widget beneath that and show everything else.

    I need to show model specific cars only.

    I would be happy to pay you for this.

    Thread Starter jromaine

    (@jromaine)

    3 years, 12 months ago

    Daniel,
    It looks like I have it working!

    Seems it was right in front of me the whole time.

    See below…

    http://www.romaines.com.au/xp-related1.jpg

    http://www.romaines.com.au/xp-related2.jpg

    http://www.romaines.com.au/xp-related3.jpg

    I just had to untick Ford and Falcon. WordPress is still smart enough to carry those categories within the breadcrumb, and in the category URl so its all good.

    Stupidly I was thinking that it would drop both unless I selected Ford and Falcon.

    So its all good. Thank you.

    Plugin Author Daniel Floeter

    (@kometschuh)

    3 years, 12 months ago

    I am glad.

    We are also very grateful to you, about a 5-star rating.

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