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Last updated by Nigel 5 years, 5 months ago.

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June 12, 2019 at 8:39 am #1266475

stewartE

Hi, I was wondering if I could somehow mark a category as being a Primary category

The use case is, I have a list of articles (a custom post type) with a taxonomy assigned to it.

I have created a view which shows the custom post type with a label showing what category it is. The issue is when it is in multiple categories. I only want to show 1 category label. Is there some way I can promote or allow the user to assign the category I want to show as a primary category

I.e The post has Cat A, Cat B and Cat D assigned to it I want the label for cat D to show.

Thanks!

June 12, 2019 at 1:36 pm #1266687

Nigel

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It's hard to see how you could do this with a single taxonomy. It might be possible to contrive something if Cat D was always the primary category, but some posts won't even have it assigned, and on those where it is assigned it won't always be the primary category.

The only way I envisage this working is to have two taxonomies, one of which is "primary category", the second being "other categories". The terms would be the same in each.

Users would assign a term from the primary category, and optionally more terms from the other categories, and you would only show the label for the primary category.