Is there a way to filter taxonomy for the lowest item in each taxonomy branch?

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Problem:

I want the LOWEST item in each taxonomy branch.

e.g. if a post is tagged as "Asia / Thailand / Bangkok" I want it to return "Bangkok.

Solution:

There isn't such kind of built-in feature within Toolset plugins, You need to edit that post, assign it with only one term.

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Last updated by PaulS4783 3 years, 4 months ago.

Assisted by: Luo Yang.

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August 19, 2021 at 6:36 am #2146377

PaulS4783

ToolSet has a nice taxonomy filter option in Views of "Parent = none".
This will return the HIGHEST item in each taxonomy branch.
e.g. if a post is tagged as "Asia / Thailand / Bangkok" it would return the taxonomy term "Asia"

But actually I want to go in the opposite direction.
I want something like "Child = none".
Meaning that I want the LOWEST item in each taxonomy branch.
e.g. if a post is tagged as "Asia / Thailand / Bangkok" I want it to return "Bangkok.

Is there a way I can do this either with ToolSet native functions or with a Short Code custom taxonomy filter?

August 19, 2021 at 9:21 am #2146521

Luo Yang

Hello,

There isn't such kind of feature within Toolset Views/Blocks plugin, see WP document:
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/#taxonomy-parameters

include_children (boolean) – Whether or not to include children for hierarchical taxonomies. Defaults to true.

The parameter "include_children" will setup as true by default, so in your case, you just need to edit each post, assign it with only one lowest term, for example "Bangkok", and test again.

August 19, 2021 at 9:35 am #2146531

PaulS4783

"The parameter "include_children" will setup as true by default, so in your case, you just need to edit each post, assign it with only one lowest term, for example "Bangkok", and test again."

Sorry. I can't understand what you are telling me to do here.

August 19, 2021 at 9:55 am #2146545

Luo Yang

As I mentioned above, there isn't such kind of built-in feature within Toolset plugins to achieve what you want:

I want the LOWEST item in each taxonomy branch.
e.g. if a post is tagged as "Asia / Thailand / Bangkok" I want it to return "Bangkok.

You need to edit that post, assign it with only one term: Bangkok

Hope it is clear.

August 20, 2021 at 1:38 am #2147179

PaulS4783

You can close the ticket.