Reopening: Show Parent of Primary Category on Single Layout

[lifehouseglobal]

Apologies for my delayed reply in the past ticket, issue is not resolved yet so I’m reposting here.

Show Parent Category on Single Layout

Hi there, this might be similar to this post here: Show parent category in dynamic content We made a single layout that shows the current posts category at the top of the page using {{dc:term:name}}. What is strange is we’re using WPML to make a bilingual website site and it displays perfectly fine in the English (primary language - shows primary and parent category), yet then in the secondary language, instead of showing the primary (and parent) category the same as the English, it shows a sub…

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The term is used in the first heading on the post.

[ruenel]

Hello @lifehouseglobal,

Thanks for writing in!

Please go to WPML > String Translation and search for the “BLOG” keyword to make sure that it is translated.

• see the link in the secure note below.

Cheers.

[lifehouseglobal]

Hi there, thanks for the reply. I have done this and still getting the same results. Could you take a further look into this?

[christian]

Hey @lifehouseglobal,

It looks like WPML, sorts categories in the other language in reverse. To solve that, in your Japanese layout, set your Column as a Looper Provider > Current Post Terms > Categories with Offset of 1.

Then, set your Text element as the Looper Consumer.

[lifehouseglobal]

great, thank you! that seems to have fixed it.

[prakash_s]

You are most welcome @lifehouseglobal