[Solved] How to Query Direct Children of a Term Instead of All Children

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I have a WooCommerce product archive and I’m trying to only show the direct subcategories but what is showing up instead is all child categories including those that are nested within others.

Here’s a screenshot of my query loop.

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I searched but could not find an answer.

Thanks for any help I can get.

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Are you trying to show top-level product categories?

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Hey Sridhar,

Thanks for asking a clarifying question.

I’m trying to show only direct child categories of whatever category I’m currently on.

For example, in the screenshot sitemap below. On the “Automobiles” category page I only want to show the direct child categories which are “Trucks” and “Vans”. Right now it’s showing all the children which includes: “Trucks, Ford Trucks, Chevy Trucks, Vans, Ford Vans, Chevy Vans”

Is it possible to only show the direct children?

Here’s the screenshot of the sitemap.

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Thanks,

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Yes.

Set Parent to the current term ID.

Reference: Scroll down to “Terms Query” on Query Loop – Bricks Academy.

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You’re a genius @Sridhar. I had the set the current term ID in the “Child of” instead of “Parent” and it wasn’t working.

Thank you!