Property taxonomies group your listings by category, type, location, features and status. Each term (for example the city New York) gets its own page that lists its properties, and the same terms fill the search form dropdowns.
The property taxonomies
WPResidence has 7 property taxonomies: Categories, Type, City, Neighborhood, County / State, Features & Amenities and Property Status. Manage them from Properties, Agents & More → Categories.
Add, edit and delete terms
- Open the taxonomy from Properties, Agents & More → Categories (for example City).
- Enter the name and leave the slug empty, so WordPress creates it from the name.
- Click Add New.
To edit a term, click its name in the list, change it and click Update. To delete it, hover the term and click Delete. A changed slug changes the page URL, so links to the old URL stop working.
Child categories
To make a child category, select a Parent Category when you add it, or edit an existing term and set its parent.
View a taxonomy page and add it to a menu
WordPress creates a page for each term. To open it, hover the term in its list and click View.
To add term pages to a menu, open Appearance → Menus, tick the taxonomy boxes in Screen Options if they are hidden, select the terms and click Add to Menu. More in How to manage menus.
Taxonomy page layout: Standard or Half Map
In Theme Options → General → Lists Layout & Sidebar, set Layout Type for Property Category/Taxonomy List Pages. It applies to all taxonomy pages.
| Layout | What visitors see |
|---|---|
| Standard | A property list or grid, with the Hero Media header and a sidebar. |
| Half Map | A map and the property list side by side, with a search form and no sidebar. It works on Categories, Type, City, Neighborhood and County / State pages. |
On a Half Map taxonomy page, the search form opens with the page’s term selected. On the Greenville area page, the Areas field shows Greenville. With tabbed search, if the term is one of the search tabs, that tab opens. The search form needs a field for the term’s taxonomy, for example an Areas field for area pages.
The look of half map pages (search style, default view, map position, footer) is set in Theme Options → Half Map Template. The map zoom on taxonomy pages is explained in How map zoom works.
Hero Media header on taxonomy pages
With the Standard layout, the top of taxonomy pages shows the Hero Media header. Set it in Theme Options → Header → Hero Media Header → Hero Media Header Type for Taxonomy Pages. When it is set to image and no image is added, each term page uses the term’s Featured Image.
To design a page for one term or a group of terms, use WPResidence Studio – Property Category / Taxonomy Template.
Featured Image for a term
Edit the term, open the Media tab, upload the Featured Image and click Update. The image shows in category widgets and shortcodes and in the taxonomy page header described above.
Attach Areas to Cities and Cities to States
In the search form, choosing a County / State limits the City list, and choosing a City limits the Neighborhood list. For this, link the terms:
- Neighborhood: edit the area and, in the Details tab, pick its city in Which city has this area.
- City: edit the city and, in the Details tab, pick its state in Which county / state has this city.
Number, order and sidebar of taxonomy pages
The number of properties per page, the default order and the sidebar are set in Theme Options → General → Lists Layout & Sidebar. Each option is explained in Theme Options – General – Lists Layout & Sidebar.
Taxonomies in the search form
Add taxonomy fields to the search form as shown in Advanced Search Form with Custom Fields. To list terms that have no properties yet, see Show categories with 0 properties.
Show categories with widgets and shortcodes
Display Categories as Tabs (Elementor widget)
Display Categories shortcode
Categories Slider
Categories Grid
