Not sure if this is the best approach - so happy to change - but I've set up a number of categories with child categories. Then on my landing page I list the parent categories - I'm using ACF to select the taxonomies I want -
<ul>
<?php foreach( $terms as $term ): ?>
<h2><?php echo $term->name; ?></h2>
<p><?php echo $term->description; ?></p>
<a href="<?php echo get_term_link( $term ); ?>">View all '<?php echo $term->name; ?>' posts</a>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
<?php endif; ?>
Each link above takes me to categories.php where I list the child categories:
<?php
$term = get_queried_object();
$children = get_terms( $term->taxonomy, array(
'parent' => $term->term_id,
'hide_empty' => false
) );
if ( $children ) {
foreach( $children as $subcat )
{
echo '<li><a href="' . esc_url(get_term_link($subcat, $subcat->taxonomy)) . '">' . $subcat->name . '</a></li>';
}
}
?>
Problem is the link attached to the child categories stays on the category.php page and not the child category post.
How do I direct the child category link to the actual post?
Heres how I though it should flow:
Not sure if this is the best approach - so happy to change - but I've set up a number of categories with child categories. Then on my landing page I list the parent categories - I'm using ACF to select the taxonomies I want -
<ul>
<?php foreach( $terms as $term ): ?>
<h2><?php echo $term->name; ?></h2>
<p><?php echo $term->description; ?></p>
<a href="<?php echo get_term_link( $term ); ?>">View all '<?php echo $term->name; ?>' posts</a>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
<?php endif; ?>
Each link above takes me to categories.php where I list the child categories:
<?php
$term = get_queried_object();
$children = get_terms( $term->taxonomy, array(
'parent' => $term->term_id,
'hide_empty' => false
) );
if ( $children ) {
foreach( $children as $subcat )
{
echo '<li><a href="' . esc_url(get_term_link($subcat, $subcat->taxonomy)) . '">' . $subcat->name . '</a></li>';
}
}
?>
Problem is the link attached to the child categories stays on the category.php page and not the child category post.
How do I direct the child category link to the actual post?
Heres how I though it should flow:
OK solved!
I have a post called "Cardio" with a child category name "Cardio".
I created a category-cardio.php (cardio is the child category) but the page doesn't display the post "cardio" same name as the category.
<?php
/**
* Cardio category template
*
* @package clf
*/
get_header(member);
?>
<div id="primary" class="content-area">
<main id="main" class="site-main">
<h1>category-cardio.php</h1>
<?php $args = array(
'categroy_name' => 'cardio',
) ?>
<?php $the_query = new WP_Query( $args ); ?>
<?php if ($the_query->have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while ($the_query->have_posts()) : $the_query->the_post();
echo the_content();
endwhile;
endif;
?>
</main><!-- #main -->
</div><!-- #primary -->
<?php
get_sidebar();
get_footer();
It's normal behaviour. ctaegory.php is the template meant to display posts of a category (parent as well as child-categories), but you are using it to display child-categories only. Posts are not shown because there is no code to display posts.
You can get a list of posts by appending a WP loop to the category.php file.
// After your current code for displaying child categories
// Main loop
if( have_posts() ){
while ( have_posts() ){
the_post();
// Display post title, contents etc here
}
}
I hope this helps.