Description
The Display Terms Shortcode was written to allow users to easily display listings of terms without knowing PHP or editing template files.
Add the shortcode in a post, page or widget and use the arguments to query based on tag, category, post type, and many other possibilities. You can also customize the output with parameters like: include, child_of, and show_image.
To use the shortcode, simply place the [display-terms]
shortcode in any post, page or widget and change the parameters to your liking.
Available parameters (and defaults):
- taxonomy => βcategoryβ
- orderby => βnameβ
- order => βASCβ
- hide_empty => true
- include => βallβ
- exclude => βallβ
- exclude_tree => βallβ
- number => false
- offset => β
- fields => βallβ
- name => β
- slug => β
- hierarchical => true
- search => β
- name__like => β
- description__like => β
- pad_counts => false
- get => β
- child_of => false
- childless => false
- cache_domain => βcoreβ
- update_term_meta_cache => true
- meta_query => β
- meta_key => array()
- meta_value => β
- show_link => true
- show_name => true
- show_description => false
- show_count => false
- show_image => true
- image_size => βfullβ
- post_type => βpostβ,
- post_include => [],
- post_exclude => [],
- post_order => βDESCβ,
- post_orderby => βmodifiedβ,
- number_to_search => 10,
- parent_element => βulβ,
- child_element => βliβ,
- class_prefix => βtermsβ,
Available filters
Every line of output in this plugin runs through a filter.
display_terms_shortcode_open
display_terms_shortcode_inner_open
display_terms_shortcode_link_open
display_terms_shortcode_name
display_terms_shortcode_description
display_terms_shortcode_count
display_terms_shortcode_latest
display_terms_shortcode_image_id
display_terms_shortcode_image
display_terms_shortcode_link_close
display_terms_shortcode_inner_close
display_terms_shortcode_close
display_terms_shortcode_output
Featured images
If the show_image
parameter is set to true
, the shortcode will look for the featured image of the latest post in the term. You can change the size of the featured image with the image_size
attribute.
Contributing
Feature suggestions and pull requests are welcome at this plugins Github repository – https://github.com/seothemes/display-terms-shortcode/
Before submitting a pull request please run translations using the following command (wp cli required):
wp i18n make-pot ./ ./languages/display-terms-shortcode.pot
Installation
Automatic Plugin Installation
- Go to Plugins > Add New.
- Type in the name of the WordPress Plugin or descriptive keyword, author, or tag in Search Plugins box or click a tag link below the screen.
- Find the WordPress Plugin you wish to install.
- Click Details for more information about the Plugin and instructions you may wish to print or save to help setup the Plugin.
- Click Install Now to install the WordPress Plugin.
- The resulting installation screen will list the installation as successful or note any problems during the install.
- If successful, click Activate Plugin to activate it, or Return to Plugin Installer for further actions.
Manual Plugin Installation
- Download your WordPress Plugin to your desktop.
- If downloaded as a zip archive, extract the Plugin folder to your desktop.
- Read through the \\βreadme\\β file thoroughly to ensure you follow the installation instructions.
- With your FTP program, upload the Plugin folder to the wp-content/plugins folder in your WordPress directory online.
- Go to Plugins screen and find the newly uploaded Plugin in the list.
- Click Activate to activate it.
Contributors & Developers
“Display Terms Shortcode” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
ContributorsTranslate “Display Terms Shortcode” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
2019/08/11 – 1.0.4
- Filter all the things!
2019/08/11 – 1.0.3
- Added class_prefix parameter.
- Added pot file for translation.
- Removed child_class parameter.
- Removed parent_class parameter.
2019/08/09 – 1.0.2
- Added tax_query parameter.
2019/08/09 – 1.0.1
- Add ability to choose post type to retrieve image from.
- Add other get_posts parameters.
2019/08/09 – 1.0.0
- Plugin overhaul.
- Added more parameters and filters.
- Removed heavy function.
2017/08/09 – 0.1.1
- Plugin clean up.
2017/08/08 – 0.1.0
- Initial release.