WordPress Primary Term

Contributors: dipesh.kakadiya Tags: term, primary Requires at least: 4.5 Requires PHP: 5.6 Tested up to: 5.3 Stable tag: 1.0 License: GPLv2

Allows you to choose primary term for posts and custom post types.

Description

Allows you to choose primary taxonomy for posts and custom post types. This plugin only work with WordPress Classic Editor.

Installation

1. Add the plugin's folder in the WordPress' plugin directory.
2. Activate the plugin.
3. Now you will have the ability to make any term a primary term for the post

Developers' Notes

if you want to filter post and custom post types based on their primary categories.

For primary term query, Meta key will be _primary_<taxonomy> Ex For Category filter key will be _primary_category

/**
 * This snippet fetch 10 published posts which have category ID 5
 * marked as primary category
 */
$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'post',
    'post_status' => 'publish',
    'posts_per_page' => '10',
    'meta_query' => array(
        'relation' => 'AND',
        'array(
            'key' => '_primary_category',
            'value' => '5',
            'compare' => '='
        ),
    ),
);
$main_query = new WP_Query( $args );

/**
 * This snippet fetch 10 published posts which have category ID 5 or 2
 * marked as primary category
 */
 $args = array(
     'post_type' => 'post',
     'post_status' => 'publish',
     'posts_per_page' => '10',
     'meta_query' => array(
         'relation' => 'AND',
         array(
             'key' => '_primary_category',
             'value' => '5,2',
             'compare' => 'IN'
         ),
     ),
 );
 $main_query = new WP_Query( $args );

Template functions

Get a post Primary term link

wppt_get_the_primary_term( $taxonomy, $id, $before, $after );

$taxonomy : Taxonomy name.
$id : Post ID or post object. Defaults to global $post [ Optional ] .
$before : Before link [ Optional ].
$after : After link [ Optional ].

Get a post Primary term object

wppt_get_primary_term( $taxonomy, $id );

$taxonomy : Taxonomy name.
$id : Post ID or post object. Defaults to global $post [ Optional ].

Get a post Primary term Id

wppt_get_primary_term_id( $taxonomy, $id );

$taxonomy : Taxonomy name.
$id : Post ID or post object. Defaults to global $post [ Optional ].

Get taxonomy array which are support primary term

wppt_get_primary_taxonomies();

Changelog

1.0

• Initial Development.