Child term in parentheses

Hi there,

How did you hide the parent term?

Hi Elisabeth,

Since you’re already filtering term_links-material to hide the top-level parents, you can layer a second filter on the same hook that folds the third-level child into its parent’s link — so “Professional” gets pulled into “Hand-painting” as “Hand-painting (Professional)”, and the standalone “Professional” link is removed.

Add this below your existing exclusion filter (order matters):

// Fold third-level child terms into their parent's link: "Parent (Child)"
add_filter( 'term_links-material', function( $term_links ) {
    $by_slug = array();
    foreach ( $term_links as $i => $link ) {
        if ( preg_match( '#/material/(?:[^"]*/)?([^/"]+)/"#', $link, $m ) ) {
            $by_slug[ $m[1] ] = $i;
        }
    }

    foreach ( $term_links as $i => $link ) {
        if ( ! preg_match( '#/material/(?:[^"]*/)?([^/"]+)/"#', $link, $m ) ) {
            continue;
        }
        $term = get_term_by( 'slug', $m[1], 'material' );
        if ( ! $term || is_wp_error( $term ) || ! $term->parent ) {
            continue;
        }
        $parent = get_term( $term->parent, 'material' );
        if ( ! $parent || is_wp_error( $parent ) ) {
            continue;
        }
        if ( ! isset( $by_slug[ $parent->slug ] ) ) {
            continue;
        }
        $parent_index = $by_slug[ $parent->slug ];
        $term_links[ $parent_index ] = preg_replace(
            '#(</a>)#',
            ' (' . esc_html( $term->name ) . ')$1',
            $term_links[ $parent_index ]
        );
        unset( $term_links[ $i ] );
    }

    return array_values( $term_links );
}, 20 );

It only folds a child in when its parent is also showing in the list, so terms like Metal (whose parent is hidden) are left alone.

One note: as written, “(Professional)” sits inside the Hand-painting link, so clicking anywhere on “Hand-painting (Professional)” goes to the Hand-painting archive, and Professional is no longer separately clickable. If you’d rather keep Professional as its own link, or have the parenthetical be plain non-linked text, let me know and I’ll adjust.

Hi Elisabeth,

Yes exactly — put it below the exclusion filter code you shared earlier, in the same child theme functions file.

I’ve adjusted it so Professional keeps its own link. Here’s the updated version to use instead of the one I sent before:

// Fold third-level child into parent display, keeping child independently clickable
add_filter( 'term_links-material', function( $term_links ) {
    $by_slug = array();
    foreach ( $term_links as $i => $link ) {
        if ( preg_match( '#/material/(?:[^"]*/)?([^/"]+)/"#', $link, $m ) ) {
            $by_slug[ $m[1] ] = $i;
        }
    }

    foreach ( $term_links as $i => $link ) {
        if ( ! preg_match( '#/material/(?:[^"]*/)?([^/"]+)/"#', $link, $m ) ) {
            continue;
        }
        $term = get_term_by( 'slug', $m[1], 'material' );
        if ( ! $term || is_wp_error( $term ) || ! $term->parent ) {
            continue;
        }
        $parent = get_term( $term->parent, 'material' );
        if ( ! $parent || is_wp_error( $parent ) ) {
            continue;
        }
        if ( ! isset( $by_slug[ $parent->slug ] ) ) {
            continue;
        }
        $parent_index = $by_slug[ $parent->slug ];
        $term_links[ $parent_index ] .= ' (' . $link . ')';
        unset( $term_links[ $i ] );
    }

    return array_values( $term_links );
}, 20 );

This gives you “Hand-painting (Professional)” with both words as their own separate links, and leaves terms like Metal alone. Let me know how it goes!

Hi Elisabeth,

Yes — this works, though it needs a different filter than the single-sign one, because the archive title comes from GenerateBlocks’ {{archive_title}} dynamic tag rather than WordPress’s native title. GB runs its tags through its own generateblocks_dynamic_tag_output filter, so that’s the hook to use.

Add this to your child theme functions file:

add_filter( 'generateblocks_dynamic_tag_output', function( $output, $options ) {
    $tag_name = $options['tag_name'] ?? '';
    if ( 'archive_title' !== $tag_name ) {
        return $output;
    }
    if ( ! is_tax( 'material' ) ) {
        return $output;
    }
    $term = get_queried_object();
    if ( ! $term || is_wp_error( $term ) || empty( $term->parent ) ) {
        return $output;
    }
    $parent = get_term( $term->parent, 'material' );
    if ( ! $parent || is_wp_error( $parent ) || empty( $parent->parent ) ) {
        return $output;
    }
    return esc_html( $parent->name ) . ' (' . esc_html( $term->name ) . ')';
}, 10, 2 );

Your Element stays exactly as-is — [archive_tax_label]: {{archive_title}} doesn’t need to change. This only affects what {{archive_title}} outputs, so on the Professional archive the heading will read “Material / Method: Hand-painting (Professional)”.

A couple of notes:

• It’s scoped to the material taxonomy and to the archive_title tag specifically, so nothing else is affected.
• I included a guard so it only folds for third-level terms (where the parent itself has a parent). A second-level term like Hand-painting’s own archive stays as just “Hand-painting”. If you’d like second-level terms to show their parent too, let me know and I’ll adjust.

Ok, no problem!