How to add taxonomy terms - Search & Filter Support

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Anonymous
(Private) September 24, 2014 at 12:27 am #4987

I have a food blog that we are using the search filter for, my question is how to add the terms for the taxonomies? Ie: in your movies demo you have the taxonomy “genre”, how do you add the terms under this taxonomy such as horror, western, indie etc. etc. I used the custom taxonomies wordpress plugin but I do not know how to include the terms or categories as shown in the demo.

In other words I have a section that I would like called Season. Under this heading I would like the search terms “spring, summer, fall and winter” in which to refine the search by.

Please help thanks

Ross Moderator
(Private) September 25, 2014 at 7:53 pm #5072

Hey Christopher

Personally, for a free plugin I use https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-taxonomy-manager/

But I’m sure the plugin you use will be fine.

To add terms, you do this through WordPress and not this plugin.

So, for example, in WP dashboard, I have my posts – I mouseover the posts in the navigation I see “categories”.

The same is for taxonomies, so you mouse over “post” and you would see “season”, or if you have a custom post type, you will see it there and not for “post”.

Then you can create/delete categories just the same.

There is an option when using a taxonomy field, where you can “hide empty” – this means if there are no posts inside a term it will be hidden, maybe this is why you don’t see your terms?

Let me know 🙂

Anonymous
(Private) September 25, 2014 at 11:14 pm #5084

Here is my link: http://constantevolutiondesign.com/2014sandbox/

This is just a test site that I have created some dummy posts on, I have tagged each post with some of the taxonomies but when I select the filters, it doesn’t work properly. I would expect the posts to load by the filter result. It would be great if you could have a look, thanks!

Anonymous
(Private) September 25, 2014 at 11:19 pm #5085

Yea it totally breaks the page, the images just keep loading and the counter on the taxonomies goes to 0. Any ideas?

Ross Moderator
(Private) September 29, 2014 at 11:16 pm #5249

Hey Christopher

You need to do 2 things…

First – you should likely disable the “auto count (beta)” feature as this causes some users more problems.

Second, you must select “use custom template” – and then you should enter a filename of the template file.

Let me know how it goes?

Thanks
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