Child and parent categories split

• antonisg

• September 12, 2019 at 9:07 am

Hi,

I am looking for a way to have 2 fields in form. One field will show from wordpress categories , the parent only categories. The second field will show the child categories from the parents category that user has select in first field.

Example of my categories:

City 1
-School 1
-School 2
City 2
-School 3
City 3
-School 4
-School 5

Example of what i want:

Field 1 : City : “Select”
Field 2 : School: “Select”

I am using select for selecting categories but they are show all together parents and subs. I don’t want that because i have more than 100 parents and 600 sub categories so it is hard to explore all categories.

Is there any way that i can make it work?

Thanks in advance.

• Scripps

• December 19, 2019 at 6:46 pm

Did you ever find a solution to this, antonisg?

I’m looking for this same functionality.

Thanks.

• bissy

• April 20, 2020 at 7:09 am

I’m in a same boat.

• ayama

• April 26, 2020 at 12:54 pm

I have the same problem, I should have more information on this.

• John Huebner

• April 27, 2020 at 12:33 am

ACF cannot do this without building custom JavaScript an AJAX requests. You may also need to use a different type of field. I have some examples of doing this here https://github.com/Hube2/acf-dynamic-ajax-select-example