i have a taxonomy value i want to have as a default when page first loads

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Last updated by Luo Yang 6 years, 11 months ago.

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June 21, 2017 at 8:14 pm #539892

jamesK-8

I am trying to: use one of the values of a taxonomy to be selected as default when first coming to the page

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I expected to see: under "Disease/Research Area" the "Cardiovascular Disease" as the selected one, with only entries that match "Cardiovascular Disease"

Instead, I got: " - All -"

I was reading this post - https://toolset.com/forums/topic/how-to-make-a-taxonomy-term-selected-by-default-in-filter-control-while-loading/ and it says there is no option, has there been updates where it now has an option?

June 22, 2017 at 3:09 am #539974

Luo Yang

Dear james,

There isn't such an option yet, in the latest version of Views plugin, we use shortcode [wpv-control-post-taxonomy] to display the taxonomy filter in the custom search form:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views-shortcodes/#wpv-control-post-taxonomy

There isn't such an option that can:
use one of the values of a taxonomy to be selected as default when first coming to the page

However, there is a workaround by using some custom codes, for example this thread:
https://toolset.com/forums/topic/set-default-value-in-a-select-box-search/#post-452500

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