Auto search in child taxonomies when only the parent taxonomy is checked

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Last updated by s1 5 years, 11 months ago.

Assisted by: Minesh.

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March 8, 2019 at 9:37 am #1211803

An example best makes clear what I want to achieve:

I have post type "company" with custom taxonomy "region".
A region is hierarchical (parent = country, child = city).

Let's say I create a new company "OnTheGo" and for the region-taxonomy I only check the parent-term "United States" and NOT any of the cities below it.

Now, when going to the Search View I only select the city "New York" (which is a "child" of the region "United States").
What I want, in that case, is to see "OnTheGo" in the search results -> this does NOT work.

If however, for company "OnTheGo" I checked any child (city) under "United States" then it should only appear for those cities -> this works.

Maybe the only solution is to save *all* child region term (= cities) automatically if only the parent region term (= country) is selected with some kind of hook.

Hope you can help me. Being struggling with this issue for a while now...

March 8, 2019 at 11:28 am #1211849