[shanna]

In order to filter by both location and category at the same time, i have set up a separate page for the location – for example https://columbiavalley.com/directory/golden/

On that page i am limiting results to the category for this location –

[connections category=144 order_by="meta_key:order|NUMERIC_ASC,sort_column" enable_category_select='FALSE' enable_search='FALSE' cnec_display_categories='FALSE']

This works fine for the base page, but when i go to a category, such as –

https://invermere.com/directory/golden/cat/arts-entertainment/photography/

the results are no longer limited to category 144 (the Golden location) – the category restriction in the shortcode seems to be ignored.

This forces me to use the following, which is not very maintainable –

https://invermere.com/directory/golden/?cn-cat=164

and this workaround does not fix the problem for breadcrumb links, which i am unable to alter.

Ideally i would just like to see the categery=”” parameter in the shortcode work for category links, as you would expect.

[Steven Zahm]

@ shanna

re: the results are no longer limited to category 144 (the Golden location) – the category restriction in the shortcode seems to be ignored.

Which is not being limited? The actual entries of the category results?

I did look at the page but it seems you decided to go a different route. If you could setup a page showing the issue I’ll take a look. You can create a new page and just not put it in your sites nav and give me a direct link.

[shanna]

Hi Steven, Sorry for the delay, as i thought i’d get an email when someone responded.

The page at https://columbiavalley.com/directory/golden/

includes this shortcode :

[connections category=144 order_by="meta_key:order|NUMERIC_ASC,sort_column" enable_category_select='FALSE' enable_search='FALSE' cnec_display_categories='FALSE']

and that page successfully filters out everything except category 144 (Golden).

However, when you go to a category based on that page, such as

https://columbiavalley.com/directory/golden/cat/arts-entertainment/photography/

…there is no filtering for category 144, as specified in the shortcode.

[Steven Zahm]

@ shanna

RE: i thought i’d get an email when someone responded.

Yes, this should happen, perhaps it was block and filtered into your spam/junk mail folder.

Ahhh… I see. The the permalink /cat/arts-entertainment/photography/ for the will override the category shortcode filter so it is possible to display the selected category.

I’m guess the intent is to only display the entries with both 144 (Golden [a location]) and the chosen category (business type). Correct?

This is possible but not by using the permalinks. I see you’ve made your own category menu… If you update the links to use queries instead of permalinks this will work. Here’s a working example:

https://columbiavalley.com/directory/golden/?cn-cat-in%5B%5D=144&cn-cat-in%5B%5D=164

Hope this makes sense, let me know.

[shanna]

Thanks Steven. That’s kind of where i was headed already, but i didn’t include the location category in the cn-cat-in parameter. Using both cats seems to make it work.

I really do wish it worked a simpler way (from a pretty permalink url), but at least this functions – it’s just a bit hard to maintain by ID rather than slug.

Thanks for your help :)

[shanna]

Hi again Steven,

Actually, on further inspection, this does not work. When i used ?cn-cat-in it does not include sub-categories.

Using ?cn-cat-in also does result in the correct links for breadcrumbs or the category links on the individuals listings.

Back to the drawing board. It would be nice if the url just did what you’d expect it to do.

[Steven Zahm]

RE: on further inspection, this does not work. When i used ?cn-cat-in it does not include sub-categories.

Right, works just like core WP does for posts… this will filter entries that are in both categories. It will not traverse the descendants.

RE: on further inspection, this does not work. When i used ?cn-cat-in it does not include sub-categories.

How so? I visited the site… the permalinks for the individual categories are displaying entries in that category. Ohh… I’m guessing you still want a way to enforce the category=144 when clicking a permalink. I really do not see a way for that to ever work… a permalink is the canonical link to a category or an entry making it subject to two more more other categories will that. This is why the queries exist. This is modelled very heavily on how WP itself works with categories.

I suppose you might be able to try using one of the filters, like city. The category permalink/shortcode option does not override one of these filters allowing a category to be filtered.

Hope this helps!

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