Default category?

  • AutoSort is on,
    My posts have multiple categories,
    But when I call get_category() I still get the fist category alphabetically and not by the order I used this plugin to order the categories.

    I want to use this plugin to define categories priority, so when I’m displaying only one category of a post, I will have control which category it is.

    Can this be done with this plugin?

    Many thanks!

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/taxonomy-terms-order/

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  • I don’t think the plugin is meant for this. The best way I can think of doing it is to:

    a) Get all of the names of the categories

    get_terms('category', 'fields=names');

    b) get_terms returns object so you’ll need to put them into an array

    $array1 = array("news", "sport", "fashion", "weather");

    c) Get the list (returns an array) of categories attached to the post

    $array2= wp_get_post_terms($post->ID, 'category', array("fields" => "names"));

    d) Loop through array1 (which is in your order) and check if the first item appears in the array2 (in_array). When you find the first one then you can print it out and quit the process.

    Hope that gets you started.

    Thread Starter benkamin

    (@benkamin)

    Looks very interesting Steven, thanks!
    But can anybody think of a simpler way, maybe using this or another plugin?
    Thanks.

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