[Resolved] Add images to custom taxonomy terms

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[chrisB-30]

Hello,

I am trying to add featured images to custom taxonomies and their child taxonomies which I will then use in various Views.
I read this post (and several others) - https://toolset.com/forums/topic/display-taxonomy-image-in-a-view/
But it relies on this plugin - https://wordpress.org/plugins/categories-images/
The plugin has not been updated in over a year so I am reluctant to add it to my site.
Is there any sort of new solution for this?

Thanks

[Nigel]

Hi Chris

You can go to Toolset > Custom Fields and add custom fields for taxonomy terms, including an image field.

So if you had a country taxonomy, for example, you could add a flag image to each country term.

Then if you have a View which lists the terms of the taxonomy you can simply output the the image using a types shortcode that you generate with the Fields and Views button in the output of the View.

No other plugins required, I'm not sure what the issue is.

You may find issues outputting the field outside of the context of a taxonomy View (e.g. a taxonomy archive), but if that's the case I can help get that working, let me know.

[chrisB-30]

Yep, that's the right way to do it! I guess I thought there was some advantage to wordpress actually recognizing it as a "featured image" - but there isn't.

I set up what you described but I am having trouble with the filtering.

I want to show all child taxonomies of a specific parent - on all the child archive pages under that parent.

I have Archive "Locations" with child locations like this:

Latin
Brazil
Cuba
Colombia

Asian
China
Philippines
Thailand

Etc

How do I set the filter in the view so that each child country ONLY shows the other countries in that region (Latin, Asian etc)

As a special bonus - is there a way to tell toolset NOT to show the current country in the view?

PS

I see in the taxonomy parent filter I can set "Parent is: (Latin, Asian, etc)"
But then I would have to create Elementor templates for all of Parent Locations which I would like to avoid if possible.

Any ideas??

Thanks

Here is my staging site - hidden link
You can see the view grid at the bottom of the page

[Nigel]

I can't see how to set this up without resorting to some custom code.

In this case I came up with the following shortcode to return sibling terms (i.e. have the same parent term as the current archive term) as a comma separated list.

You can then provide that list as a shortcode attribute to set the terms for a taxonomy View to determine what to output for them.

So, you can register a [siblings] shortcode like so:

add_shortcode('siblings', function () {
 
    global $wp_query;
    $obj = $wp_query->get_queried_object();

    if ( $obj->parent == 0 ) {
        return '-1';
    } else {

        $terms = get_terms(
            array(
                'taxonomy'  =>  $obj->taxonomy,
                'parent'    =>  $obj->parent,
                'exclude'   =>  $obj->term_id
            )
        );

        $term_array = wp_list_pluck( $terms, "term_id");
        return implode( ",", $term_array );
    }
});

Register that shortcode for use as 3rd party shortcode arguments at Toolset > Settings > Front-end Content.

Now create or edit a custom archive for your country taxonomy. This will show posts for that country.

Somewhere on the page where you want to display these sibling countries insert a View using a shortcode that sets the "terms" attribute with the new siblings shortcode, e.g.

[wpv-view name="other-countries-with-same-parent" terms="[siblings]"]

This View is a taxonomy View (to display terms of the country taxonomy) and includes a Taxonomy Term Filter Taxonomy term ID is set by the shortcode attribute "terms".

Design the output of the View as required (you'll probably want to remove the "No items found" text for when visiting a parent archive (e.g. "Asia").

[chrisB-30]

Perfect. You are a Toolset genius!