kishanjasani/primary-category

Allows you to choose primary category for posts and custom post types

Primary Category

Allows you to choose primary category for posts and custom post types.

Description

Notice: Currently works only with WordPress Gutenberg Editor, not Classic Editor compatible

• Allows you to choose primary category for posts and custom post types.

• When the permalink structure includes category and the category marked as Primary, will be used for generating the permalink of the post.

• Works with posts and custom post types.

• Allows you to filter posts by primary category in frontend. Example: Open a custom category page http://example.com/category-name/. You will see that, the posts will be filtered by the primary category only.

• Whereas on category archive page, http://example.com/category/category-name/ You will see all the posts related to that category.

Installation

1. Go to WordPress Plugin's Directory and Run the following commands to install plugin:

git clone [email protected]:kishanjasani/primary-category.git
cd primary-category
composer dumpautoload
npm i

2. Now go to WordPress backend -> Plugin page -> Activate the Plugin.

3. Now you should have ability to choose primary category in post category section.

A video walkthrough of the plugin : link.

Automated Testing

Setup Unit Test for the development:

1. Go inside the Primary Category plugin directory
2. Go to composer.json file and edit setup-local-tests script with your database configuration.
3. Then tun composer run setup-local-tests
4. Run composer run test

Best Practice

The plugin follows WordPress and WordPress VIP coding standards. You can check the standard configuration inside the phpcs.xml.dist file.