Check for taxonomy archive results on search.php page

[FrisOnline76]

Hi,

Not really sure if this question is related to the plugin but I’m looking for a way / conditional statement to check if a search result is a taxonomy archive link.

It seems like there isn’t such a conditional statement within WordPress Core as is_tax() only checks if the current page is a taxonomy archive page. This might be related to the issue that taxonomy archive pages can’t be searched / shown as result with the default WordPress search.

I’ve searched the Ajax Search Pro documentation but didn’t find the answer there. I found the asp_query_args filter but that filter changes the query and is not related to they way results are shown.

It there any way to check if a search result is a taxonomy archive page on the search results page (search.php)?

Kind regards,
Niels Pilon

• This topic was modified 6 years ago by FrisOnline76.

[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi Niels,

Well, you cannot check that via WordPress core functions, as all of those items there are “mimiced” as post types, since the results page is built for that.

There might be a way though, via using the get_asp_result_field() function in there. Try:

if ( get_asp_result_field('content_type') == 'term' ) {

The “content_type” field should contain the result type – in this case you are looking for “term”, that represents taxonomy terms (taxonomy archive links).

[FrisOnline76]

Hi Ernest,

Thanks for your quick reply which solved the issue!

Can the function also be changed to check for a specific taxonomy term as it looks like it will be used for all terms…?

Kind regards,
Niels

[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi,

Well, it should return the taxonomy, if defined:

get_asp_result_field('taxonomy')

..as well as the term ID, if needed:

get_asp_result_field('id')

[FrisOnline76]

Thanks again Ernest! Issue solved 🙂

[Ernest Marcinko]

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