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  • August 24, 2023 at 4:24 PM #43034
    RoderickRoderick
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    Hi,

    I am using mbviews for my child-category/term archives. Is there a way to get the parent-category name and URL?

    My use case: I want to display a banner on a child-category archive that points to the parent-category.
    For example.
    - New York
    -- Activities

    On the 'Activities archive' I wish to show a banner with the name 'All New York articles' that links to the New York parent.

    Unfortunately I can't seem to find a default field for this in the MB Views sidebar.
    I hope you can help me with this.

    Thank you in advance 🙂

    Roderick

    August 27, 2023 at 9:14 PM #43051
    PeterPeter
    Moderator

    Hello,

    There isn't a default field for the parent term of the current term. You can use some WordPress functions to get the parent term name and permalink. For example:

    {% set current_term = mb.get_term_by( 'id', term.id, 'category' ) %}
{% set parent_term = mb.get_term_by( 'id', current_term.parent, 'category' ) %}

Parent term name: {{ parent_term.name }}
<br>
Parent term permalink: {{ mb.get_term_link( parent_term, 'category' ) }}

    Please read more in the documentation
    https://docs.metabox.io/extensions/mb-views/#running-php-functions
    https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_term_by/
    https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_term_link/

    August 29, 2023 at 2:45 PM #43074
    RoderickRoderick
    Participant

    Thank you once again Peter, it works perfectly!

    For future reference, here is my finished MB views code:

    {% set current_term = mb.get_term_by( 'id', term.id, 'category' ) %}
{# Check to see if the current term has a parent #}
{% if current_term.parent %}
{% set parent_term = mb.get_term_by( 'id', current_term.parent, 'category' ) %}
<div>
<a href="{{ mb.get_term_link( parent_term, 'category' ) }}">
All posts of <span>{{ parent_term.name }}</span>
</a>
</div>
{% endif %}
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