How can I filter custom post type taxonomy results?

  • Resolved w1cky

    (@w1cky)


    11 years, 11 months ago

    I’m sure that this has been covered but I can’t find the solution anywhere. Please can somebody help?

    I have a custom post type of Courses, which has 2 taxonomies: Course Subject and Course Location.

    I have set up a page entitled Courses Overview, with some helpful intro text. Beneath this text I have displayed links to the Course Locations:

    <?php $args = array (
	'taxonomy' => 'course_location',
	'title_li' => ''
) ; ?>
<?php wp_list_categories( $args ); ?>

    Each Course Subject is displayed in a separate table on the taxonomy-course_location.php template.

    Example:

    The user clicks London
    (on mysite.com/courses-overview)

    And is shown 3 tables: Design; Photography; Drawing
    (on mysite.com/course-location/london)

    Everything is working correctly except I can’t work out how to filter the results. So, using the example above, The Design table shows ALL of the design courses, not just the ones in London.

    How do I restrict the results to only be for the current Location?

    This is my code for the taxonomy-course_location.php template:

    <?php $term =	$wp_query->queried_object; ?>
<h1>Courses in: <?php echo $term->name ; ?></h1>		

<?php
	$args = array(
		'post_type' => 'courses',
		'course_subject' => 'design',
		'posts_per_page' => 200
	);
	$currentDesignCourses = new WP_Query( $args );
?>

<table>
... stuff ...
</table>
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  • Thread Starter w1cky

    (@w1cky)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    Never mind. I found the solution.

    Chris Bell

    (@villagechris)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Curious – what was the solution?

    Thread Starter w1cky

    (@w1cky)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    After clicking through from the taxonomy term on the previous page (eg. View courses in London), the relevant info is shown in a table on a subsequent page. You need to query the object which contains the name, slug, etc.

    Here a stripped down version of the code:

    <?php $locationTerm = $wp_query->queried_object->slug; 

$args = array(
	'course_location' => $locationTerm,
	'course_type' => 'design',
	'post_type' => 'courses',
	'orderby' => ' . $startDate . ',
	'order' => 'ASC',
	'posts_per_page' => 2000
);
$currentCourses = new WP_Query( $args );
?>
<?php if($currentCourses->post_count != 0 ) :  while ($$currentCourses->have_posts()) : $currentCourses->the_post(); ?>

… DO STUFF HERE … 

<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

    The post type is Courses. Course Location and Course Type are taxonomies.

    Thread Starter w1cky

    (@w1cky)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    It’s worth mentioning that I’ve had issues with ordering via the menu_order argument, so I’ve started using get_posts and a foreach loop instead of WP_Query for custom post types.

    It seems to work much more consistently.

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