[Gelöst] Filter posts based on user's saved categories

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[Brad Tipper]

I've got a custom post type "Jobs" and a custom taxonomy "Job Types".

What I want to do is:

1. Have an area in my CRED add/edit user form with checkboxes where users can choose what "Job Types" they want to see.

2. On the "Jobs" view, only show jobs that match the "Job Types" that a user has preselected.

Any tips on how I might achieve this? I searched around on Google but couldn't really come up with anything too relevant.

Cheers!

[Noman]

Hi Brad,

Thank you for contacting Toolset support. This is a custom requirement and not possible using builtin options of Toolset. Problem here is that we can’t link same Category (taxonomy) to both Post Types and Users at same time. Also Toolset does not support user categories / taxonomies. There is a custom method to achieve this through coding. We would link Category (taxonomy) with Checkbox user field indirectly in this method, the steps would be as follows:

1. Create Custom Post Type “Jobs” (as you have already created).
2. Create taxonomy “Job Types” for above CPT >> add some categories.
3. Create a user field (checkboxes) and add same values as Job Types (categories) have.
4. Create two CRED Forms: 1 for Add User and 1 for Edit user.
5. Create view that will display specific post for specific job types selected by a user. This will need some custom coding to make it happen. Here are relevant hooks/filters:
https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/views-filters/#wpv_view_settings
https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/views-filters/#wpv_filter_query

6. To get values of the selected checkbox get_user_meta function will be used:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_user_meta
https://toolset.com/documentation/customizing-sites-using-php/functions/#checkboxes

We have some recommended list of service providers here who can implement such things for you: https://toolset.com/consultant/

Thank you