Issue with Category Shortcode

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

The first problem suggests that there is a conflict with one of your installed plugins. Please help us investigate this by performing the steps described here: https://rankmath.com/kb/check-plugin-conflicts/

Since your restaurant custom post type is using a custom category, the default %category% replacement variable will not work for this post type and you have to register some custom replacements to get the category. I could not access your theme files but here is a similar topic on how to register the replacements: https://support.rankmath.com/ticket/register-a-custom-template-variable/

Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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Hi Charlie,

Thanks for the follow up.

We would be happy to help in adding the custom replacement variables to your theme if you can share some temporary FTP access as well on the sensitive data section.

I am looking forward to your response. Thank you.

Hi there,

I completely understand the security limitation.

Here is a copy of the code that you can use to register some custom replacements for one of the categories “Listing Category”, I have added some comments on the code for the areas that you will need to change when reusing the code for a new category:

/*
* Add a new copy of the following for each of your categories 
* 
* The code below will register a %listingCat% variable to be used on the Listing Category page
*/
add_action( 'rank_math/vars/register_extra_replacements', function() {
    //replace 'listingCat' with the name of the variable that you would to create and use for each category
    //replace all occurences of'RMPrimaryCategoryToListingCallback' with a new function name when adding a new replacemnt variable
    //for a new category
   RankMath\Helper::register_var_replacement( 'listingCat',array('RMPrimaryCategoryToListingCallback'),$args = array(
            'name'    => esc_html__( 'Listing Category', 'rank-math' ),
            'desc'    => esc_html__( 'Category of the current listing', 'rank-math' ),
            'example' => esc_html__(RMPrimaryCategoryToListingCallback())));
    
    
} );

function RMPrimaryCategoryToListingCallback(){
    global $post;
    $post_id = $_GET['post'] ?: $post->ID;
    //replace 'listing_cat' with the new variale slug of the category that you are registering new replacements for
    $termID = \WilokeListingTools\Framework\Helpers\GetSettings::getPrimaryTermIDOfPost($post_id, 'listing_cat');
    if ( !empty($termID) ){
        //replace 'listing_cat' with the new variale slug of the category that you are registering new replacements for
      $oTerm = get_term($termID, 'listing_cat'); 
      if ( !empty($oTerm) && !is_wp_error($oTerm) ){
         return $oTerm->name;
      }
   }

}

The conflict is a bit odd but I cannot reproduce this on my end which suggests that there is a plugin or theme code causing this on your end. To be able to get to the bottom of the conflict, I would suggest that you perform the steps I recommended earlier.

I hope this info helps. Thank you.

Hi there,

Thanks for the question.

This will go in your functions.php file.

Thank you.