// determine the topmost parent of a term
function get_term_top_most_parent($term_id, $taxonomy){
// start from the current term
$parent = get_term_by( 'id', $term_id, $taxonomy);
// climb up the hierarchy until we reach a term with parent = '0'
while ($parent->parent != '0'){
$term_id = $parent->parent;
$parent = get_term_by( 'id', $term_id, $taxonomy);
}
return $parent;
}
// so once you have this function you can just loop over the results returned by wp_get_object_terms
function hey_top_parents($taxonomy, $results = 1) {
// get terms for current post
$terms = wp_get_object_terms( get_the_ID(), $taxonomy );
// set vars
$top_parent_terms = array();
foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
//get top level parent
$top_parent = get_term_top_most_parent( $term->term_id, $taxonomy );
//check if you have it in your array to only add it once
if ( !in_array( $top_parent, $top_parent_terms ) ) {
$top_parent_terms[] = $top_parent;
}
}
// build output (the HTML is up to you)
foreach ( $top_parent_terms as $term ) {
$r = '<ul>';
$r .= '<li><a href="/go.html?url='. get_term_link( $term->slug, $taxonomy ) . '">' . $term->name . '</a></li>';
}
$r .= '</ul>';
// return the results
return $r;
}// determine the topmost parent of a term
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