[Gelöst] We are trying to use a single taxonomy across multiple CPTs

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[Steven]

We are trying to use a single taxonomy (industries) across multiple CPTs (transactions, research, insights, etc.) That part is setup the problem is we also have taxonomy pages like this one versteckter Link which currently is a taxonomy only for transactions but when moving to a single taxonomy this URL structure doesn't seem to work the URL becomes versteckter Link and WordPress has no idea about the post type "transactions" that I would like to filter. Is this something creating a View can help with?
Currently for example on this page versteckter Link the dropdown links are generated from the taxonomy so I'd need to generate proper URLs if this is even possible to do as I've tried to explain.

Thank you for your time,
Steven

[Christopher Amirian]

Hi Steven,

Sharing a taxonomy with multiple CPTs has that downside as the default WordPress taxonomy archive page does not take CPTs into consideration and it will list all taxonomies with the term in question no matter which CPT they are part in.

For your use-case I suggest that you avoid using the WordPress archives and create separate views for each custom post type regarding the taxonomy in question.

In the view, you will be able to create a custom search that filters the taxonomy but as the view content is limited to a custom post type, it will only show the filtered terms within the custom post type:

https://toolset.com/course-lesson/creating-a-custom-search/

The downside of this method is that you will need to create a separate view with all the search functionality for each custom post type.

Thanks.

[Steven]

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!