Dynamic data in Generateblocks : Display only primary category

Hi there,

Primary Categories are a Yoast thing... Tom provides a function here to create a shortcode for displaying them:

https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/category-link-issue-on-gp-element/page/2/#post-1761111

Thank you so much,

I read the other post but it's really technical for me. I pasted the last piece of code Tom provided in my functions.php file, but it's not working.

OK to break it down:

1. This gets added to your child theme functions.php - if you're not using a child theme then you should add it using the Code Snippets plugin:

function dynamic_category_link_function( $atts ) {
	if ( 'post' !== get_post_type() ) {
		return;
	}
    ob_start();

    $categories = get_the_category();
    $category_link = '';
	
    if ( class_exists('WPSEO_Primary_Term') ) {
        // Show the post's 'Primary' category, if this Yoast feature is available, & one is set
        $wpseo_primary_term = new WPSEO_Primary_Term( 'category', get_the_id() );
        $wpseo_primary_term = $wpseo_primary_term->get_primary_term();
        $term = get_term( $wpseo_primary_term );

        if ( is_wp_error( $term ) ) {
            // Default to first category (not Yoast) if an error is returned
            $category_link = get_category_link( $categories[0]->term_id );
            $term_name = get_term( $categories[0]->term_id  )->name;
        } else {
            // Yoast Primary category
            $category_link = get_category_link( $term->term_id );
            $term_name = get_term( $term->term_id )->name;
        }
    } else {
        // Default, display the first category in WP's list of assigned categories
        $category_link = get_category_link( $categories[0]->term_id );
        $term_name = get_term( $categories[0]->term_id  )->name;
    }

    echo '<a class="term-link" href="' . $category_link . '">' . $term_name .'</a>';
	
	return ob_get_clean();
	
}
add_shortcode( 'dynamic_category_link', 'dynamic_category_link_function' );

2. In your Block Element - add a GB Headline Block, and paste in the shortcode: [dynamic_category_link]

Let me know if that works

Thank you very much.

Now it pulls the right url for the primary navigation but it doesn't display the term, just the url, and it's not clickable.

you can see it here : https://www.screencast.com/t/DpJRLsFl

Aah ok - i updated step 1 above:

https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/dynamic-data-in-generateblocks-display-only-primary-category/#post-2017361

If you can remove the old PHP and add that instead.

Thank you very much, it works perfectly :)

Awesome - glad to hear that!