Hierarchical Taxonomy Dropdowns

I just started using this plugin, and did not see a setting for showing the hierarchy for taxonomies. I edited the code, but since the changes are not upgrade-safe, I’m hoping they can be incorporated into future versions of the plugin.

Do do so, I changed the core/shortcodes/acps_shortcodes.php and core/acps_results_template.php files.

On the first file, I changed the lines:

$acps_html .= '<select name="'.$value.'">';
						if($acps_blank_term)
						{
							$acps_html .= '<option value="">Select '.$key.'...</option>';
						}
						foreach($acps_taxonomy_terms as $acps_taxonomy_term)
						{
							$acps_html .= '<option value="'.$acps_taxonomy_term->slug.'">'.$acps_taxonomy_term->name.'</option>';
						}
						$acps_html .= '</select>';

to:

$acps_taxonomy_args = array(
							'echo' => 0,
							'name' => $value,
							'orderby' => 'NAME',
							'taxonomy' => $value,
						);

						// If "Blank Term Option" is enabled, show the blank option
						if( $acps_blank_term ) {
							$acps_taxonomy_args['show_option_all'] = 'Select ' . $key . '...';
						}

						// If "Show Hierarchiical Taxonomies" is enabled, show the hierarchy
						//if( $acps_hierarchical_taxonomies ) {
							$acps_taxonomy_args['hierarchical'] = 1;
						//}

						$acps_html .= wp_dropdown_categories( $acps_taxonomy_args );

(I commented out where it could check for a setting, since some users may not want to show the hierarchy. I did not add the setting, as I want to show the hierarchy at all times.)

On the second file, I just changed ‘slug’ to ‘id’ in the lines:

//Make a tax query array for each array member
				$acps_term_settings[$acps_current_term_setting] = array(
					'taxonomy' => $k,
					'field' => 'slug',
					'terms' => $v
				); */

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