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Question on the "magic tags" (short-codes) in Elements > Header

5 replies · Started by Henry on August 20, 2020

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August 20, 2020 at 3:58 am #1410730

In GP, there's a great feature where you can pull out WP metadata like this:

{{post_title}}

This works great, but this does not:

{{post_terms.taxonomy}}

The page I am running this {{post_terms.taxonomy}} is to pull the "category" slug for the page but it doesn't work. I tried:

{{category.taxonomy}}

And no joy.

Is there something I am doing wrong?

Also, in the ideal world I've love to add the same magic tag to a URL like this:

https://my-site.com/filter/{{category.taxonomy}}

So, in summary, what do I need to do to:

1. Make it work to show the category slug?
2. Embed it in a URL?

Thanks!

August 20, 2020 at 5:25 am #1410864

Hi there,

you would use this:

{{post_terms.category}}

as category is the taxonomy you want to be displayed.

This is not something you can add to a URL - that would be defined by your Permalink structure or an SEO plugin

August 21, 2020 at 5:55 am #1412509

ok thanks, sorry David, I'm being a bit slow, can you give me an example?

I guess my question is - what are "post_terms" is there a list of them that you can share? Thanks

August 21, 2020 at 6:26 am #1412545

Taxonomies can be Categories or Tags or a Custom taxonomy if you like e.g books.

When you +new category to your post you're creating a new Category > Post Term.
Likewise +new tag your creating a new Tags > Term

So adding this template tag to the header element:

{{post_terms.category}}

will display all the category > terms for the current post.

August 23, 2020 at 5:34 pm #1415358

Thanks for your help.

August 24, 2020 at 3:21 am #1415736

You're welcome

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