I am using a custom taxonomy called skill-category across multiple CPTs. I am also using a custom post type called "portfolio" to act as a user profile post i.e. there is only one portfolio post per user and I use it to show user activity on the site.
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This link is unique for each user and allows me to show them all the info related to just that user. Now I want to drill even deeper into user information. The above link shows the user's performance and engagement across all "skills" on a portfolio CPT.
But, I want to be able to click on any skill shown on the portfolio CPT and directed to the user's performance for that skill. I am thinking of 3 possible ways to do this -
1. Create a search page such as - hidden link that allows others to select a skill and only see data related to that skill.
2. Pass skill taxonomy as a URL param and use it to modify the output on the portfolio post - hidden link =market-analysis. That does not feel like the cleanest solution
3). Somehow create a taxonomy archive for each user and just link to it. Something like - hidden link
I think the 3rd one is the cleanest one and most intuitive for the user to understand but I am not sure how to do that because the number of taxonomy terms will keep on changing over time so I don't want to manually create a sub-post for portfolio post every time a new taxonomy term is created.
I am still working on making the portfolio taxonomy work but a rough idea of how the portfolio post would look like: hidden link
You will notice here that I am using 3 custom taxonomies: 1) skill category, 2) industry category, 3) project type. Ideally, I would like to have unique information per user for each term for all 3 custom taxonomies but let us start with skill-category taxonomy. Thank you for your help!
Hi,
Thank you for contacting us and I'd be happy to assist.
Based on the information you've shared, I agree that option 2 is the simplest while option 3 is the cleanest yet more challenging as it will require some extra customization work.
But for option 3, I won't use the term taxonomy archive. You'll need 3 "custom endpoints" for each of those taxonomies.
For example:
1) skill category
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2) industry category
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3) project type.
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So in summary, you'll add three endpoints "skill-category", "industry-category" & "project-type" that will allow you to process and show data related to their term slug values accordingly.
Here are some useful guides on using the Rewrite endpoints API:
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/add_rewrite_endpoint/
https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/2012/06/07/rewrite-endpoints-api/
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26072925/add-rewrite-rule-for-custom-sub-pages
regards,
Waqar
My issue is resolved now. Thank you!
