Custom Taxonomy Dropdown search URLs

  • I’m using the following code to create a drop down box for a custom taxonomy search:

    Functions code:

    function get_terms_dropdown($taxonomies, $args){
$myterms = get_terms($taxonomies, $args);
     $output ="<select name='TERM'>";
     foreach($myterms as $term){
          $root_url = get_bloginfo('url');
          $term_taxonomy=$term->taxonomy;
          $term_slug=$term->slug;
          $term_name =$term->name;
          $link = $term_slug;
          $output .="<option value='".$link."'>".$term_name." (".$term->count.") </option>";
     }
     $output .="</select>";
return $output;
}

    PHP code (placed in a php widget):

    <form action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>" method="get">
     <div>
<?php
$taxonomies = array('TAXONOMY NAME');
$args = array('orderby'=>'name','hide_empty'=>true);
$select = get_terms_dropdown($taxonomies, $args);

$select = preg_replace("#<select([^>]*)>#", "<select$1 onchange='return this.form.submit()'>", $select);
echo $select;
?>
     <noscript><div><input type="submit" value="Term Value" /></div></noscript>
     </div></form>

    When a term is selected from the list it sends the user to a page with a URL output like: domain.com/?TERM=term1

    How can i output this instead as: domain.com/TERM/term1

    I also only want this to return posts from a specific custom post type – is there an extra bit of code i can add to get this functioning for post_type=’xyz’ ?

    Thanks in advance,
    Rob

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  • Any luck with this Rob?

    Thread Starter ProductAnatomy

    (@productanatomy)

    Well the searching within a custom post type is relatively easy.

    I just used a code similar to the following code for my news post type (replace ‘news’ with the name of you custom post type:

    function search_filter() {
global $blog_id;
	if (is_post_type_archive ( 'news' ) || is_singular( 'news' )) {?>
	<li class="nav_search"><form method="get" class="search_form" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/">
		<p>
			<input class="text_input" type="text" value="" name="s" id="s"/>
			<input type="hidden" name="post_type" value="news" />
		</p>
	</form></li>
	<?php }
}
add_action('$tag','search_filter');

    For the first part of my original question I believe there are a couple of ways to do this. Firstly you could use custom rewrite rules to rewrite the urls once they’ve been searched for – switching them from domain.com/?TERM=term1 to domain.com/taxonomyname/term1 (I’m not too familiar with rewrite rules I’m afraid).

    The second option is a little easier and would be to create the custom taxonomy with the archive slug as you would like them – domain.com/taxonomyname/term1 (set the slug to ‘taxonomyname’ when creating the taxonomy). Now when you search using the drop down, WordPress should automatically rewrite the urls to domain.com/taxonomyname/term1.

    Hope this helps

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