Custom Taxonomy Archive Help

  • Resolved visualsuplex

    (@visualsuplex)


    5 years ago

    Hi! Love the PODS plugin. It has really let me create what I need without all the coding! Let me preface and say that I’m very green with the back end coding of things, which is why I use this plugin.

    My issue is I can’t seem to enable archive pages for my custom taxonomies. I’m currently using Elementor Pro and it’s theme/template function quite successfully for all my custom post types, single posts, ect.

    Heres the gist –

    I have a CPT of Images, with EXIF, Genre, Region, and Subject as custom taxonomies. I’ve successfully created a master template for all archives, and it works for the CPT, and for any hierarchical taxonomies such as /genre/landscapes. But if I go to /genre/ the URL changes to ?elementor_library=genres and the template isn’t applied. I’ve hacked around this by making a taxonomy of Genre inside of Genre (/genre/genre/) and made all my actual genres hierarchical to that. Doing this gives me an actual archive of all my taxonomies.

    What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

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  • Plugin Contributor Jim True

    (@jimtrue)

    Taxonomy archives are not “enabled”. All Taxonomies are only Archives. If you’ve associated your Taxonomy to a post type, that post type must have archives enabled under Advanced Options

    Make sure it works outside of Elementor in a base theme first and then escalate to Elementor for support.

    Thread Starter visualsuplex

    (@visualsuplex)

    Ok so – the taxonomy archives work as such. I can for example go to /genre/landscapes/ and see all landscape posts.

    But What I’m trying to do is create an archive of all the taxonomies within /genre/. The only way I can do that is with the hack I described earlier.

    I guess I could also just make those taxonomies CPTs instead huh?

    Thread Starter visualsuplex

    (@visualsuplex)

    Let me clarify a little more.

    I’m ultimately trying to have an archive of actual taxonomy terms not posts, so a user can browse those terms first then dive into each taxonomy and see posts.

    From research I understand this is a core issue with WordPress for some folks.

    Thread Starter visualsuplex

    (@visualsuplex)

    Hmm just figured out another way to hack it –

    I went into edit PODS > Advanced > Rewrite > and made it “/”

    So now my taxonomy archive /genre/genre/ = /genre/

    There must be another way around this. Again, apologize for my lack of knowledge of the back end.

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