Setting Article Primary Category

We don’t have any setting specific to that. That’s going to be all Yoast SEO functionality to handle.

Last I knew, at least as long as it’s detecting the taxonomy, once you choose more than 1 term, it prompts you to specify the primary term.

Hi Michael, Thank you for your reply. The Primary Category option is available if I am creating a default WordPress Post. But when I am creating an CPT UI Article, it is not available. Do you think that possibly Yoast is not recognizing the CPT custom article type?

See screenshot below. The left is a standard WP Post, the right is a CPT UI Article. https://ibb.co/2K0yXyV

Here is the Article Post Type code:

function cptui_register_my_cpts_mark_category() {

/**
 * Post Type: Articles.
 */

$labels = [
    "name" => esc_html__( "Articles", "Avada" ),
    "singular_name" => esc_html__( "Article", "Avada" ),
];

$args = [
    "label" => esc_html__( "Articles", "Avada" ),
    "labels" => $labels,
    "description" => "",
    "public" => true,
    "publicly_queryable" => true,
    "show_ui" => true,
    "show_in_rest" => true,
    "rest_base" => "",
    "rest_controller_class" => "WP_REST_Posts_Controller",
    "rest_namespace" => "wp/v2",
    "has_archive" => false,
    "show_in_menu" => true,
    "show_in_nav_menus" => true,
    "delete_with_user" => false,
    "exclude_from_search" => false,
    "capability_type" => "post",
    "map_meta_cap" => true,
    "hierarchical" => true,
    "can_export" => false,
    "rewrite" => [ "slug" => "article", "with_front" => true ],
    "query_var" => true,
    "supports" => [ "title", "editor", "thumbnail", "excerpt", "trackbacks", "comments", "revisions", "author", "page-attributes" ],
    "taxonomies" => [ "article-category" ],
    "show_in_graphql" => false,
];

register_post_type( "mark_category", $args );

}

add_action( ‘init’, ‘cptui_register_my_cpts_mark_category’ );

All Custom Post Type UI Taxonomies

function cptui_register_my_taxes() {

/**
 * Taxonomy: Article Categories.
 */

$labels = [
    "name" => esc_html__( "Article Categories", "Avada" ),
    "singular_name" => esc_html__( "Article Category", "Avada" ),
];


$args = [
    "label" => esc_html__( "Article Categories", "Avada" ),
    "labels" => $labels,
    "public" => true,
    "publicly_queryable" => true,
    "hierarchical" => false,
    "show_ui" => true,
    "show_in_menu" => true,
    "show_in_nav_menus" => true,
    "query_var" => true,
    "rewrite" => [ 'slug' => 'article-category', 'with_front' => true,  'hierarchical' => true, ],
    "show_admin_column" => false,
    "show_in_rest" => true,
    "show_tagcloud" => false,
    "rest_base" => "article-category",
    "rest_controller_class" => "WP_REST_Terms_Controller",
    "rest_namespace" => "wp/v2",
    "show_in_quick_edit" => false,
    "sort" => false,
    "show_in_graphql" => false,
];
register_taxonomy( "article-category", [ "mark_category" ], $args );

}
add_action( ‘init’, ‘cptui_register_my_taxes’ );

Article Categories Taxonomy

function cptui_register_my_taxes_article_category() {

/**
 * Taxonomy: Article Categories.
 */

$labels = [
    "name" => esc_html__( "Article Categories", "Avada" ),
    "singular_name" => esc_html__( "Article Category", "Avada" ),
];


$args = [
    "label" => esc_html__( "Article Categories", "Avada" ),
    "labels" => $labels,
    "public" => true,
    "publicly_queryable" => true,
    "hierarchical" => false,
    "show_ui" => true,
    "show_in_menu" => true,
    "show_in_nav_menus" => true,
    "query_var" => true,
    "rewrite" => [ 'slug' => 'article-category', 'with_front' => true,  'hierarchical' => true, ],
    "show_admin_column" => false,
    "show_in_rest" => true,
    "show_tagcloud" => false,
    "rest_base" => "article-category",
    "rest_controller_class" => "WP_REST_Terms_Controller",
    "rest_namespace" => "wp/v2",
    "show_in_quick_edit" => false,
    "sort" => false,
    "show_in_graphql" => false,
];
register_taxonomy( "article-category", [ "mark_category" ], $args );

}
add_action( ‘init’, ‘cptui_register_my_taxes_article_category’ );

Based on what I’m seeing, I think for “primary” term setting, you want the taxonomy to be registered as “hierarchical”

Here I have 2 different custom taxonomies on a custom post type, and only “anthology” is hierarchical, and it gets the ‘primary” setting option

Michael, Thank you. Setting the Taxonomy’s Hierarchical to “True” fixed it. Many Thanks!

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