Single out children in a taxonomy loop?

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Hi Everyone,

In the newest plugin version, the taxonomy term loop now supports children=true. (Thanks for the suggestion, Ben!) It’s basically the opposite of parents=true, which gets only the top-level terms.

A list of top-level parent terms belonging to the current post:

<Taxonomy development parents=true>
  ...
</Taxonomy>

A list of (non top-level) child terms:

<Taxonomy development children=true>

This one is strange though, I’m not sure in what situation it can be useful.

I think what’s more natural is to get the children of each top-level term, like:

<Taxonomy development parents=true>
  Town: <Term name /><br>
  Subdivisions:<br>
  <Loop field=children>
    <img src="{Term image_of_this_subdivision}" width="500" height="600"/>
  </Loop>
</Loop>

That should work, but I’m not 100% sure about the child term field - it might be necessary to replace Term with Field.

Thank you, Emmanuel, for helping in various discussion topics. I’ve been too busy to respond to all the posted questions in a timely manner, so your input is much appreciated.

Your example using field=parent is an interesting solution. It works because the loop gets all taxonomy terms belonging to the current post, then filters for only the terms which have a field called “parent”. For top-level parent terms, that field is empty.

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