Looking for acting on parent categories only

  • 916VT

    (@vincent916)


    10 years ago

    Hi there,

    As titled, I’m looking for acting on my parent categories only, without touching about their childs.

    At the end, I would like to redirect url/category/parent/ (which is a category) to url/parent/ (which is a page).

    So I’m thinking about using wp_redirect() but I need to apply it to the right moment.

    I found that topic that is also about parent category but the code influence child categories.

    <?php
    $category = get_the_category();
    if ($category[0]->category_parent != '') {echo 'hello world!' ;} ?>

    Does anyone know something to target only my category parents ?

    Thanks a lot for helping,
    Vinc

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  • Daniel Homer

    (@danielhomer)

    Try this code inside your functions.php

    add_action( 'template_redirect', 'redirect_parent_category' );

function redirect_parent_category() {
	if ( ! is_category() ) {
		return;
	}

	$cat = get_query_var( 'cat' );
	$term = get_term( $cat, 'category' );

	if ( ! $term->parent ) {
		wp_safe_redirect( '/' . $term->slug, 301 );
		exit();
	}
}

    I haven’t tested it, but it should redirect any category archives without a parent to /<slug>.

    Thread Starter 916VT

    (@vincent916)

    Hello Daniel,

    It looks to work just perfectly ! Awesome !

    I was reading Google result pages for hours… :’)

    Thanks a lot for your help, really appreciated
    Vinc

    Thread Starter 916VT

    (@vincent916)

    Hi Daniel,

    Maybe you may help me again with that.

    I installed SEO WP by Yoast and use the function to remove /category/ on my url. Now, the function you provided above doesn’t work.

    Do you think it’s possible to fix that somehow ?

    Thanks again

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