I’m in the process of creating a custom post type for a site I’m working on. This post type will have a hierarchical custom taxonomy.
I know I can add custom fields to the taxonomy pages with acf, my question is:
is there a way to set it up so that child “categories” have different custom fields than parent “categories”?
Thanks for any help
Hi @Hube2
Currently, this is not possible. However, it is very possible to create your own custom location rule!
You could create a rule to look at the taxonomy term’s parent and then return true / false depending on the result.
You can read how to create a custom location rule here:
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/tutorials/custom-location-rules/
Hi there @Hube2,
I too have required this functionality today, due to being at work I am unable to test this for a variety of taxonomies although I have used it for shopp-categories.
Please let me know how you get on with this.
https://github.com/WazzaJB/ACF-Taxonomy-Depth-Rule
Wazza
Thanks, I’ll give it a whirl and let you know how it goes.
@WazzaJB
Worked a charm, added your code to my custom plugin class for this site. I have not tested it completely, only tested to see if it worked on the parent level so far. Will test the rest as I use it. But after reading the instructions that Elliot linked to and looking at your code I don’t see why it wouldn’t work.
Thanks a heap, saved me a boatload of time trying to figure it out on my own. Now I have an example to follow 🙂
No problem @hube2 glad I could help, I’m sure you’ll be able to tweak it to better suit your needs 🙂
Hello
How you could create a rule valid for all post belonging to a subcategory of a main category?
I mean, if I have a structure like this:
– Category 1
– Sub-category 1-1
– Post 1-1-1
– Post 1-1-2
– Sub-category 1-2
– Post 1-2-1
– Post 1-2-2
– Post 1-2-3
– Category 2
– Sub-category 2-1
– Post 2-1-1
– Post 2-1-2
– Sub-category 2-2
– Post 2-2-1
– Post 2-2-2
– Post 2-2-3
I want the post in category 1 have some fields, and the post of Category 2 given different fields
Hi @pablo[email protected],
Unfortunately this location rule does not incorporate this facility. I believe you would need to create your own location rule to achieve this.
Many thanks,
Warren
