Element location

Hi James,

Yes, you need to add the Sub Categories in the Display Rule settings if you want your Element to display for them.

If you want it to be automatic that the Element displays for all sub categories of the category, you’ll need a custom PHP snippet. Here’s what you may refer to: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/generate_element_display/#display-an-element-to-a-parent-page-and-all-child-pages

Hi there,

that won’t work, Fernando linked you to an example that is for Parent Pages not categories.

If you want an element to display on child categories you need to include them in the Element Display Rules.

Yes, that is correct.

Or give this snippet a try, replace 1000 with the actual element ID which can be found in the element editor’s URL, and replace travel with the actual parent category slug.

add_filter( 'generate_element_display', function( $display, $element_id ) {
    global $post;
    $travel_category = get_term_by( 'slug', 'travel', 'category' );
    
    if ( $travel_category ) {
        $travel_category_id = $travel_category->term_id;
        $subcategories = get_term_children( $travel_category_id, 'category' );

        // Check if the post is in the "travel" category or its subcategories
        if ( 1000 === $element_id && ( is_single() &&  has_term( $subcategories, 'category', $post ) ) ) {
            $display = true;
        }
    }

    return $display;
}, 10, 2 );

Hi James,

Yes, that’s correct.

Alright. Once you’re done editing the Element, let us know so we can view it.

I’m checking the Loop Template you have for Tip. Could you remove and Display rule setting you’ve set for this.

Also, could you exclude Cartip for the “Archieve” Loop Template for testing purposes?

Could you try this snippet instead?:

add_filter( 'generate_element_display', function( $display, $element_id ) {
    $current_category = get_queried_object();
    // Get the ID of the "tip" category
    $tip_category_id = get_cat_ID('tip');
    
    if ( $tip_category_id ) {
        // Check if the post is in the "tipl" category or its subcategories
        if ( 2205 === $element_id && is_category() && ( is_category( 'tip' ) || cat_is_ancestor_of( $tip_category_id, $current_category->term_id ) ) ) {
            $display = true;
        }
    }

    return $display;
}, 10, 2 );