SOLVED: How to unlink the URL from a custom taxonomy?

How To
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Hi everyone, is there any way we can unlink the URL from a custom taxonomy for dynamic data?
Like example: {post_terms_job_locations:unlink}

Basically, I trying NOT to have the person click on the dynamic data URL that was auto-inputted from the custom taxonomy that was made. Don’t know how to deactivate that taxonomy URL.

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Wondering this as well

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Hi Scarlett,
since Bricks 1.4beta you can use and echo custom PHP functions.

Place this function inside of a code element on the same page where you’re querying your posts (with the posts element or a custom loop). Replace ‘custom_taxonomies’ with your custom taxonomy slug. Alternatively, you can place it in functions.php if you’re using a child theme.

<?php
    function post_taxonomy_names_array( $tax_name = 'custom_taxonomies' ) { 
        $terms = wp_get_post_terms( get_the_ID(), $tax_name, array( "fields" => "names" ) );
        if ( ! empty( $terms ) && ! is_wp_error( $terms ) ) {
            $term_array = array();

            foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
                $term_array[] = $term;
            }
     
            return $term_array;
        }
        return '';
    }
?>

Then, inside of your posts element or your custom loop, call and echo the function:

{echo:post_taxonomy_names_array}

Best regards,
timmse

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Option 2
You can disable the pointer-events for the specific field.

Replace the field id with your specific field id and you’re done :slight_smile:

.dynamic[data-field-id="puldok"] a {
  pointer-events: none;
}

This way, the link stays as it is and can be followed by search engines, but is not clickable for the user.

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Hey, thanks for the reply. Ya, disabling pointer-events does work but don’t want the search engines to find this link. :frowning:

Oh well, I will stick with my alternate option for now, which I created a ACF to have a label name the same as the taxonomy name and the user chooses from there.

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Hello all, it’s now 1.7 and I’m dealing with this right now, and the Bricks filter function does nothing to fix the link-wrapping of taxonomy queries, so it’s a useless/deprecated documentation as far as I can tell. Can someone please suggest a real workaround to this? Bricks is cool and all, but I also feel like I need to jump through 5 hoops every time I want to query anything with anything more than “1 level deep” to it.

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@timmse does Bricks plan to either (a) fix this issue in the builder, or (b) provide code that works in snippets?

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The code from timmse worked for me, with a minor adjustment to output as a list.

function my_tags_list( $tax_name = 'my-tags' ) { 
    $terms = wp_get_post_terms( get_the_ID(), $tax_name, array( "fields" => "names" ) );
        if ( ! empty( $terms ) && ! is_wp_error( $terms ) ) {
            $out = "<ul>";
            foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
                $out .= "<li>".$term."</li>";
            }
            $out .= "</ul>";
            return $out;
        }
        return '';
    }

Then in the bricks template > text > content:
{echo:bw_proj_service_tags}

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You can just use {post_terms_job_locations:plain} - that’s worked for me :slight_smile: