I wanted to link my Wordpress blog posts to product categories (programmatically), so I updated the bigcommerce_product taxonomy type to also appear on the post content type using the following code.
function shop_modify_bc_taxonomy() {
$tax = 'bigcommerce_category';
$bcArgs = get_taxonomy( $tax ); // returns an object
$bcArgs->object_type = array_merge($bcArgs->object_type, ['post']); // Add 'post'
register_taxonomy( $tax, $bcArgs->object_type, (array) $bcArgs );
}
// hook it up to 11 so that it overrides the original register_taxonomy function
add_action( 'init', 'shop_modify_bc_taxonomy', 20 );
Now, however, posts are showing up on the product catalogs when associating them with a term.
If I add the following line to the function BigCommerce\Templates\Product_Archive::get_posts() my problem is solved:
private function get_posts( \WP_Query $query ) {
$cards = [];
while ( $query->have_posts() ) {
$query->the_post();
// Add this line
if (get_post_type() !== 'bigcommerce_product') { continue; }
$product = new Product( get_the_ID() );
$card = Product_Card::factory( [
Product_Card::PRODUCT => $product,
] );
$cards[] = $card->render();
}
wp_reset_query();
return $cards;
}
but I don't know how to override this class. Can I perhaps hook into the WP_Query?
Using pre_get_posts, we can limit the post_type to Big Commerce Products in our theme's function.php file
function edit_bigcommerce_queries( $query ) {
if ( ! is_admin() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
// Is a BigCommerce Category Page
if ( !empty( $query->query['bigcommerce_category']) {
$query->set( 'post_type', 'bigcommerce_product');
}
}
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'edit_bigcommerce_queries' );