Add a condition to check whether on parent taxonomy archive

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Problem:
Client has a hierarchical taxonomy and only wants to show something on parent term archive pages, not child term archive pages. What test can be included in a wpv-conditional shortcode?

Solution:
You would need to register a custom function that checks whether the current term for the taxonomy archive being viewed has parents or not, which can then be used as the conditional in a wpv-conditional shortcode (after registering the custom function), e.g.

function tssupp_archive_term_is_parent(){
 
    global $wp_query;
    $tax = $wp_query->get_queried_object();
 
    return $tax->parent == 0;
 
}

Relevant Documentation:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/conditional-html-output-in-views/using-custom-functions-in-conditions/

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

Assisted by: Nigel.

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June 19, 2018 at 12:37 pm #915232

Himanshu Agarwal

We want filter to show filter control only in parent taxonomy archive pages and not in child archive pages.

For example, we have created a filter for taxonomy archive page and want that filter to be shown

only in: example.com/parent-taxonomy/

but not in: example.com/parent-taxonomy/child-taxonomy

June 19, 2018 at 1:23 pm #915252

Nigel

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For that you would need to add some custom code that checks whether the current archive term is a top-level (parent) term or not.

I added the following code to the functions.php file of my test site:

function tssupp_archive_term_is_parent(){

    global $wp_query;
    $tax = $wp_query->get_queried_object();

    return $tax->parent == 0;

}

I then registered it to be able to use it in conditional shortcodes at the page Toolset > Settings > Front-end content (https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/conditional-html-output-in-views/using-custom-functions-in-conditions/).

Then in the Search and Pagination section of my custom archive I added the following conditional shortcode:

[wpv-conditional if="( tssupp_archive_term_is_parent() eq '1' )"]
<p>Only show this for parent terms</p>
[/wpv-conditional]

June 20, 2018 at 4:47 am #915578

Himanshu Agarwal

Thank you so much Nigel, code is working.

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