Altering the display of taxonomy terms

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Problem: I have a View of posts that includes a wpv-post-taxonomy shortcode. I would like to use more complex HTML and formatting to list the terms associated with a post, but the wpv-post-taxonomy shortcode only allows me to provide basic separators.

Solution: Use a nested View of this taxonomy instead of the wpv-post-taxonomy shortcode. Add a taxonomy term filter, set by the current post in the loop. Use the Loop Output editor to add more complex HTML and styles. Use the wpv-item, index, pad and pad-last features to make fine-grained adjustments to each iteration of the loop.

Relevant Documentation:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/filtering-views-by-taxonomy/
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/digging-into-view-outputs/

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Last updated by edF-5 5 years ago.

Assisted by: Christian Cox.

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November 23, 2019 at 9:16 pm #1390367

edF-5

Hi there,

I'm currently displaying a set of custom posts via a view. One of the fields on display is a taxonomy. The default display of the taxonomy is "term1, term2, term3," etc., with each term linked to a term archive page. Is there a way I can control how the terms are displayed? For example, I want to hide the comma and possibly assign CSS classes to the terms.

Here's the code in the loop item content template:

 
<p class="recently_added post_title">[wpv-post-title]</p>
<p class="recently_added publication">[wpv-post-field name="Publisher/Publication"]</p>
<p class="recently_added subject_taxonomy_terms">[wpv-post-taxonomy type="subject-terms"]</p>

Is that possible? (Do I have to nest a view inside my view?)

Thank you!

Saul

November 24, 2019 at 9:28 pm #1390719

Christian Cox

Is that possible? (Do I have to nest a view inside my view?)
Hi, yes this is generally the best approach if you want to display each associated term with more complex formatting or extra markup. You should create a View of this taxonomy, filtered by term, where the terms are set by the current post in the loop. Then use the Loop Output editor to add your custom HTML markup and CSS classes as needed. Insert this View in your existing View of posts in the loop editor. Let me know if you need additional information about that approach and I can give more guidance.

November 27, 2019 at 8:03 pm #1393809

edF-5

This makes sense. I'll give it a shot.

Thanks, Christian!

Saul