[Resolved] Outputting Taxonomy name of parent taxonomy view loop item inside the child view

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[timC-5]

Tell us what you are trying to do?
I'm using a parent taxonomy view and I'm trying to output the taxonomy name inside the child view outside of the loop of the view as a heading. This means the heading will only be displayed when the taxonomy is populated with items from within the child view rather than if the taxonomy is populated regardless.

This is because we have 2 taxonomies affecting the child view which can cause the parent to appear empty.

When adding the "[wpv-post-taxonomy]" field, there isn't a post selection for "set by parent taxonomy view" like there is in the filters which would handle it perfectly, do you know if this is possible to do with a custom function?

Is there any documentation that you are following?
Not anything I could find, although I didn't look very heavily.

What is the link to your site?
hidden link
The user and password for the htaccess is sws.
The view in question is under the Results tab.

[Shane]

Hi Tim,

Assuming that you've already had the view setup and it is displaying correctly, you only need to check if the term has a child correct and display the parent title if it does.

In such a case a custom function might be helpful here. Please try this below.

// Add Shortcode
function check_if_child_terms_empty( $atts ) {

	// Attributes
	$atts = shortcode_atts(
		array(
			'term_id' => '',
			'taxonomy_name' => '',
		),
		$atts
	);

	$child_terms_arr = get_term_children($atts['term_id'],$atts['taxonomy_name']);
	if(empty($child_terms_arr)){
	    return true;
	}

}
add_shortcode( 'check_if_child_terms_empty', 'check_if_child_terms_empty' );

The code above will return true if the taxonomy doesn't have any child terms. To use it you will format the shortcode like this [check_if_child_terms_empty term_id='[wpv-taxonomy-id]' taxonomy_name='[wpv-taxonomy-title]']

Furthering this you can use the shortcode above in our conditional statement to check if the function returns true. Here is an example below.

[wpv-conditional if="('[check_if_child_terms_empty term_id='[wpv-taxonomy-id]' taxonomy_name='[wpv-taxonomy-title]']' ne '1' "]

Display Taxonomy Title

[/wpv-conditional]

However before you can use the custom shortcode in our conditionals you must first add the shortcode to Toolset -> Settings-> Custom Code and activate it.

Then go to Toolset->Settings->Frontend and under 3rd party shortcode arguments add the name of the shortcode.

Please let me know if this helps.
Thanks,
Shane

[timC-5]

Hi Shane,

My apologies, I failed to mention the child view is outputting a post type (Results) not child terms. What I need is to check if the Child View has Posts (Results) related to the Taxonomy in the loop of the Parent Taxonomy View after Child View filters have been applied and if so output the title otherwise don't output the title.

I can provide a login if needed.

[Shane]

Hi Tim,

This a bit more tricky to achieve given that we are going to need to check if the taxonomy has any posts.

Yes please provide the admin access to the site so that I can have a look.

Thanks,
Shane

[Shane]

Hi Tim,

Thank you for your patience, this should now be working.

I used the shortcode below to evaluate your view to see what the results are then pass it to the conditional statement in views to hide/show the items.

function check_view_result() {
$args = array(
    'title' => 'Results output for Concert view'
);
$view = render_view( $args );
if(strlen($view) == 62){
return 'the view is empty';
}

}
add_shortcode( 'check_view_result', 'check_view_result' );

Please let me know if this helps.
Thanks,
Shane

[timC-5]

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!

Absolutely phenomenal support, thank you very much Shane.