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Alright, is it just me, or does the my_qmt_url function not do anything at all? Described here: https://github.com/scribu/wp-query-multiple-taxonomies/wiki/Changing-URLs

Not yet. I am consistently able to get the function to change the front of the url I generate, such as adding “people” to “example.com/people/?topics=studios”

What I want to do is to add “/?post_type=people&” to the front of my urls. I’ll let everyone know if there are any developments.

Well, in my case I have a taxonomy which sorts a great deal of my site into

-Animation Types
-Animation Series
-Countries
-Research Subjects
-Studios
-Timeline

Lower level taxonomies might look like

-Studios
– Columbia Pictures
– Hanna Barbera Studios
– Paramount Studios
– Fleischer Studios
– Universal Studios
– Walt Disney Studios
– Pixar Animation Studios
– Warner Bros.

In this case, and in others, I don’t want the top-level of the taxonomy, “Studios,” to be navigable. I don’t want people to be able to see all posts that have any studio associated with them because it isn’t a useful query. I would, however, like them to view all posts associated with child and grandchild terms – some posts might only be attached to “paramount studios” and not as a lower level term.

In other areas this is even more important – I have a timeline which breaks up everything into decades (1890s, 1900s, 1910s, etc) and then has lower level taxonomies for years (1890, 1891, 1892, etc). I want people to be able to browse by decade or year but not by the “Timeline” taxonomy itself.

Thanks so much for the reply. If there is a way I can achieve this than that would be preferable – even if I could introduce a class for top-level taxonomies and unlink them through CSS or JS? Otherwise I may just add more taxonomies – so Paramount would have a subtaxonomy of “All Paramount,” 1890s would have a subtaxonomy of “All 1890s”. It would of course be preferable to index from the child terms themselves though.

joshuaiz,

Haven’t figured it out yet but I’m back at it again. Will let you know.

I’ve put in the new function but I still can’t figure out how to trigger it… will keep plugging away

Hi all,

I’ve rewritten this a bit to see if I can get it to work, following jquery ajax tutorials.

I have moved the PHP function I want to execute to my functions.php file. My sidebar now looks like this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<h2>Show... </h2>
<script type="text/javascript">
function showAll() {
    $.get("addquery.php", { value:"" });
    return false;
}
function showAnimation() {
    $.get("addquery.php", { value:"animation" });
    return false;
}
function showPeople() {
    $.get("addquery.php", { value:"people" });
    return false;
}
function showResources() {
    $.get("addquery.php", { value:"resources" });
    return false;
}
function showStudios() {
    $.get("addquery.php", { value:"studios" });
    return false;
}
function showWiki() {
    $.get("addquery.php", { value:"wiki" });
    return false;
}
</script>
<a href="#" onclick="showAll();">All</a>
<a href="#" onclick="showAnimation();">Animation</a>
<a href="#" onclick="showPeople();">People</a>
<a href="#" onclick="showStudios();">Studios</a>
<a href="#" onclick="showResources();">Resources</a>
<a href="#" onclick="showWiki();">Wiki</a><br /><br />
<h2>Browse by topic... </h2>
<?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar(7) ) : else : ?>
<?php endif; ?>

My “Addquery.php” file which I am using to execute the function looks like this:

<?php
$_GET['value'] = $value;
add_querystring_var($url, 'post_type', $value);
?>

But when I run the functions, nothing happens. I can see in chrome that the browser is trying to access “mysite.com/addquery.php?value=wiki” correctly and that it is receiving an error. The error is “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error)”

Does anyone have any suggestions for how I might proceed?

I’ve tried arranging the code in a number of different ways… currently:

function my_qmt_base_url( $url, $CPTquery ) {
	if ( is_post_type_archive ()) {
		$CPTquery = get_post_type( $post->slug );
}
$url = '?post_type='.$CPTquery.'&';
    return $url;
}
add_filter( 'qmt_base_url', 'my_qmt_base_url' );

The results are the same and I don’t see “?post_type=whatever” in my query string. I’m not sure this is a problem with calling the name of the post type, because I can set up the above code with $url = ‘TEST?post_type=’ and I will get a URL which looks like “example.com/TEST?resource_type=&topics=&timeline=”. If I set $url as a fixed value, like ‘?post_type=resource’, it does not affect the URL at all. The code seems to refuse to relay anything after the question mark before post_type. Any ideas?