Category filter in Category archive.

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Last updated by Himanshu Agarwal 5 years, 10 months ago.

Assisted by: Waqar.

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February 25, 2019 at 5:33 am #1205312

Himanshu Agarwal

HI,

I created a view for product category archive.
Please check below link:-
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This is a product category archive, and you can see there are different filters. There is a product category filter (Named "Niche"), here all categories are not showing only selected category showing.

But in home page all product categories are showing.

In this possible to show all product category for filter in product category filter in category archive?

February 25, 2019 at 12:26 pm #1205554

Waqar

Hi Himanshu,

Thanks for asking! I'd be happy to help.

The way WordPress category archive pages works, they only show posts which belong to a particular term, whose archive page is being viewed.

Your page at hidden link is also a category archive page for the term "Education", which is why only one option "Education" is showing in the category filter.

You'll also see a warning message in the WordPress archive view "Product categories" ( screenshot: hidden link ), that this category filtering won't work here since this view naturally shows the current term's posts:
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In case, you'd like to change the default behavior of how WordPress archives work, you can remove all filters and content from your "Product categories" view and in the start of the Loop Editor section, insert a post view similar to the one used on the homepage.

regards,
Waqar

February 26, 2019 at 4:18 am #1205975

Himanshu Agarwal

I am using same view in product category as home page.

February 26, 2019 at 12:23 pm #1206241

Waqar

Hi Himanshu,

Your product category archive page ( e.g. hidden link ) is set to use "Product categories" WordPress archive view:
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The homepage is using the "Home Search View (fields)" posts view:
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You can learn more about the difference in a post and a WordPress archive view, from these guides:
https://toolset.com/documentation/getting-started-with-toolset/create-and-display-custom-lists-of-content/
https://toolset.com/documentation/getting-started-with-toolset/customize-post-archives/

If you want to nest a post view in a WordPress archive view, you can remove the "Query Filters" ( screenshot: hidden link ) and content from the "Loop editor" section ( screenshot: hidden link ).

And in the "Output Editor" section, replace "[wpv-filter-meta-html]" shortcode ( screenshot: hidden link ) with your desired post view's shortcode.

regards,
Waqar

March 27, 2019 at 5:11 am #1221331

Himanshu Agarwal

Thank you!