Tag Archives: Taxonomy

Apr.6 2011

WordPress: Query Posts by Taxonomy Term Value

By: Joshua GibletteTags: , One Comment

Here’s a simple way to create a custom query for posts by term value. It’s pretty straight forward but if you see a way to improve it, feel free to let me know.

The Code

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<?php
// Define the arguments for the query here.
$args=array(
  'taxonomy' => 'taxonomy_slug_here',
  'term' => 'term_slug_here',
  'post_type' => 'custom_post_type_slug_here',
  'posts_per_page' => -1,
  'caller_get_posts'=> 1,
  'orderby'=> 'post_date',
  'order'=> 'ASC',
);
$my_query = null;
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
   while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
    Call the post content here
   <?php endwhile;
} wp_reset_query(); ?>
Mar.29 2011

WordPress Taxonomies: Displaying Terms as Text

By: Joshua GibletteTags: , 2 Comments

While using custom post types on a recent site, I ran into a situation where I wanted to list the terms(taxonomies) associated to a post. The function get_the_terms worked great, but I wanted to list the terms as text and not URLs. The first thing that came to mind was to use “strip_tags”, but that just felt dirty… so here’s a simple solution to display a post’s terms as text and not URLs.

The Code

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<?php function get_language_terms($args) {
            // Get terms for post
            $terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID , $args );
 
            if ( !empty( $terms ) ):
                // Loop over each item since it's an array
                foreach( $terms as $term ) {
                    // Print the name method from $term which is an OBJECT
                    echo $term->name;
                    // Get rid of the other data stored in the object, since it's not needed
                    unset($term);
           } endif;
 
} ?>

Then place this inside the loop and specify the argument for which taxonomy you are wanting to list terms for.

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<?php get_language_terms('taxonomy_slug_goes_here'); ?>

I hope this can help someone else as well!