Can't display Categories only used by Custom Post Types

Heres my actual shortcode if it helps:

[searchandfilter fields="search,post_types,category,post_tag" post_types="all" types=",checkbox,," search_placeholder="Rechercher..."?submit_label="Filtrer" show_count=",1,1"]

Hi hohisse

It sounds like your main query is not including custom post types so the categories for them might not be showing up.. I’m not sure exactly…

Have you modified your main WP loop to include those custom post types? Something along the lines of this link:
https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-add-custom-post-types-to-your-home-page-and-feeds/

The other reason they might not be showing is because empty categories are not shown by default – ie, count = 0, in which case you need to enable the hide_empty argument in the shortcode – something like:

[searchandfilter fields="search,post_types,category,post_tag" post_types="all" types=",checkbox,," search_placeholder="Rechercher..." submit_label="Filtrer" show_count=",1,1" hide_empty=",,0,0"]

Let me know ??

It sounds like your main query is not including custom post types so the categories for them might not be showing up.. I’m not sure exactly…

Have you modified your main WP loop to include those custom post types? Something along the lines of this link:
https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-add-custom-post-types-to-your-home-page-and-feeds/

I actually used a plugin to do so:

Easy Taxonomy Support

Maybe it doesn’t do the job 100%. I will investigate on this.

Thanks for your second hint about trying to show the empty categories, they still won’t show whatever I do.

[searchandfilter fields="search,post_types,category,post_tag" post_types="all" types=",checkbox,," search_placeholder="Rechercher..."?submit_label="Filtrer" show_count=",1,1," hide_empty=",0,0,0"]

P.S. Question, is show count work on checkbox layout?

Hey, yes show_count works for all field types – selects, multiselects, checkoxes and radio buttons..

RE the other stuff… Is your theme showing your custom posts? For example: if you create a new post with a custom post type in the admin section, can you see the new post (with the custom post type) in the front end? I find that most themes only show pages and posts and custom post types will not automatically be displayed.

If your new custom posts are not being displayed in your theme then you need to follow the instructions a the link I sent you before.

Thanks

Hi,

Thank you for your patience with my newbie questions.

I’ve actually got my Custom Post Types to show in my Categories and being considered in your plugin.

The post you suggested:
Custom Post Types on home page
never got me anywhere, but I’m not a coder so If I had to make any modifications to it I would have been lost.

I’ve found another post on WPMUDEV called
Add Custom Post Types to Tags and Categories in WordPress

I’ve copy/paste in my functions.php and TA-DA!!

I would like to thank you for the extra mile you did answering to my request. Most developers simply answers by the negative or tell us that it is beyond the scope of their support. You made the difference!

Note: you should sign your post so we can thank a name and not only Design & Code.

Respectfully,

Henrik

Hey Henrik, thanks for the feedback – yeah the link I sent was doing something along the same lines as what you provided but needed some modifications ??

Thanks for the kind words and the info, it will likely help other users ??

– Ross