Query subcategories in category page

[slekstut]

Hi,

could anyone support on the displaying subcategories on the category page dinamically using query? I tried a lot of combinations and watched tutorials, but cannot do that.

[Louis]

Hi @slekstut,

I’ll try and add some archive related dynamic values so one can access them more easily, as they should be available.

In the meantime, might I propose:

And your shortcode:

// Function to retrieve the term ID of the current category
function get_current_category_id()
{
    $current_category = get_queried_object();

// Check if the current category is an instance of WP_Term
    if ($current_category instanceof WP_Term) {
        $category_id = $current_category->term_id;
        return $category_id;
    }
}
// Register shortcode and associate it with the 'get_current_category_id' function
add_shortcode('cc_current_term_id', 'get_current_category_id');

[slekstut]

@Louis thanks for your suggestion. I am set parameters as you provided. But cannot insert short code. Paragraph in query template is not cwicly block with settings. How and where to insert the shortcode?

I guess shortcode should be as shown in docs:

[Louis]

Hi @slekstut,

You’ll want to add the shortcode code I provided above using a code snippet plugin such as Code Snippets – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org.

Cheers,

[StrangeTech]

Hi @slekstut,

I see that @Louis has already answered this. Just in case you need more information, I put together a tip, to give you a overview of the different ways you can add your shortcode definition and any other custom code:

How to add custom code and shortcode definitions

As there have been a few posts where questions around this came up, I thought it may be useful to show the four most common ways you can add custom code that work well with Cwicly. 1. Child theme functions.php Download the child theme and install from here (only do this for new websites unless you know how to transfer your theme customisations to the child theme): Cwicly.com dashboard - Add child theme & make links obvious - #9 by StrangeTech Edit the functions.php file and add your custom …

I hope this makes it clearer.

[slekstut]

Thanks for your support. But I cannot get why it is not working? I did shortcode with wpcodebox plugin. Published the code. Enabled. But in editor I cannot add any element to query template. Or it’s not the way to do it?

[slekstut]

Somehow I made it work. I think because added more taxonomies in the query editor (as per image below). Editor shows all subcategories but in the preview page it shows okay. When I enter another category page, subcategories are correct.

Thanks again!

[slekstut]

Any ideas how to make that subcategories a links dynamically redirecting to subcategory page?