[Resolved] Views displaying all items despite filter by Taxonomy

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[davidM-34]

I am trying to: List all Lexicon items that start with the letter A. I've assigned Taxonomy "A" to 2 posts (Lexicons) and created a View for it. See attached screenshot

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I expected to see: only the first two items that start with the letter A. I assigned those two items the taxonomy of A. I will assign the A Taxonomy to the rest of the terms that start with the letter A once I get the View to work.

Instead, I got: A list of ALL posts.

[Minesh Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

Well - starts with and taxonomy assigned is the different thing. I checked by creating view and assigned only one post to taxonomy term and its displaying only one post with view that's assigned to the term.

Are you looking for the character filter like this?
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[davidM-34]

Yes, that is exactly what I'm looking for. Is there a document on that?

[Minesh Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

Could you please try to follow following steps:

es, its possible but needs some custom programming and few steps needs to follow:

1)
Create a taxonomy namely "alphabets" and add A to Z as terms.

2)
Now create a taxonomy view listing "alphabets" taxonomy terms. The loop output section should look like this:

[wpv-layout-start]
    [wpv-items-found]
    <a href="[current_url]">All</a>
    <!-- wpv-loop-start -->
        <wpv-loop>
            <a href="?wpvalphabet=[wpv-taxonomy-title]">[wpv-taxonomy-title]</a>
        </wpv-loop>
    <!-- wpv-loop-end -->
    [/wpv-items-found]
    [wpv-no-items-found]
        <strong>[wpml-string context="wpv-views"]No items found[/wpml-string]</strong>
    [/wpv-no-items-found]
[wpv-layout-end]

=> Add following code to your current themes funcitons.php file

/**
 * Register custom shortcode to output url of current page
 * Minus any url parameters
 */
add_shortcode( 'current_url', function(){
   
    $request = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].strtok($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"],'?');
    $protocol = '<em><u>hidden link</u></em>';
   
    if ( $_SERVER['HTTPS'] ) {
        $protocol = '<em><u>hidden link</u></em>';
    }
   
    return $protocol . $request;
} );

3)
Now create another view for which you want to display your posts filter by the taxonomy "alphabets" as URL param.

[wpv-layout-start]
[wpv-view name="alphabet-terms"]
[wpv-items-found]
<!-- wpv-loop-start -->
        <wpv-loop>
            <h3>[wpv-post-link]</h3>
        </wpv-loop>
    <!-- wpv-loop-end -->
    [/wpv-items-found]
    [wpv-no-items-found]
        <strong>[wpml-string context="wpv-views"]No items found[/wpml-string]</strong>
    [/wpv-no-items-found]
[wpv-layout-end]

More info:
=> https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/filtering-views-by-taxonomy/

[davidM-34]

I will try this but I have some questions:

1. For the taxonomy, do I use Hierarchical or Flat?
2. Do I assign "Post Types to be used with this Taxonomy" to my post type=Lexicons?
3. Are there any other settings I need to worry about or keep everyting default?

[davidM-34]

OK, here's the page but the links are still showing everything when you click on A. As a test, I assigned Taxonomy A to Adoption Process. (see screenshot with two highlights.)

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Would you like to have access to our backend?

[Minesh Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

1. For the taxonomy, do I use Hierarchical or Flat?
==> It should be flat taxonomy.
2. Do I assign "Post Types to be used with this Taxonomy" to my post type=Lexicons?
=> Yes.
3. Are there any other settings I need to worry about or keep everyting default?
==> it should be OK

But let me check on your install.

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[Minesh Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

Could you please check now.
=> hidden link

I've added the query filter to your view:
=> hidden link

Select posts with taxonomy:
Alphabets slug in one of those set by the URL parameter wpvalphabet
eg. <em><u>hidden link</u></em>

Now it looks like working fine.

[davidM-34]

Thank you, it looks great in Staging.

Now, I'm trying to add the query filter to our production server but the Edit View screen does not have that section available. See screen shot. How do I make that section available?

[Minesh Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

Well - on top right side you will see the "Screen Options" click on that and check the checkbox with "Query Filter" and "Query Filter" section will be appear on your screen.

[davidM-34]

Thank you! It's up and running now in production. I just have to set the Alphabet taxonomy for each post.

Thanks for the great support!