New to the community? Start here

CustomPress: Taxonomy with no archives

Is there a way to create a taxonomy which has an admin UI but does not have archive pages on the frontend?

There doesn't seem to be an option for this?

Failing that, any custom snippet I can put into my functions file to disable the frontend pages for these taxonomies?

Denitsa

WordPress Warrior: Earn your WPMU DEV membership

112 pts: Hero points 1,285 pts: Rep. points LEVEL 9

Hello there Shaun,
I hope you're having a beautiful day and thank you for your question!

You can check the following function which will disable all archives for the taxonomy it is called with

/**
 * Completely disable term archives for this taxonomy.
 * <a title=param href=/profile/param>param</a>  string $taxonomy WordPress taxnomy name
 */
function kill_taxonomy_archive($taxonomy){

  add_action('pre_get_posts', function($qry) {

            if (is_admin()) return;

            if (is_tax($taxonomy)){
                $qry->set_404();
            }
        }
    );
}

Another solution (it will hide archives for all taxonomies) would be simply

/* Register template redirect action callback */
add_action('template_redirect', 'wpmu_remove_tax_archives');

/* Remove archives */
function wpmu_remove_tax_archives(){
   if( is_tax() ) {
    global $wp_query;
    $wp_query->set_404(); //set to 404 not found page
  }
}

Tell me how these work for you!

All the best,
Denitsa