Displaying custom taxnomy link list using wp_list_categories

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(@aldesigner)

I’d like to make a list of links using wp_list_categories() for the custom taxonomies I created with CPT UI. I’ve tried approaches explained in roughly seven different articles, all to no avail.

Example of one of the approaches I attempted:

<?php

				$customPostTaxonomies = get_object_taxonomies('awards');

				if(count($customPostTaxonomies) > 0)
				{
					 foreach($customPostTaxonomies as $tax)
					 {
						 $args = array(
							  'orderby' => 'name',
							  'show_count' => 0,
							  'pad_counts' => 0,
							  'hierarchical' => 1,
							  'taxonomy' => $tax,
							  'title_li' => ''
							);

						 wp_list_categories( $args );
					 }
				}

			?>

Is there a specific, recommended approach when using CPT UI?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/

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Plugin Contributor Michael Beckwith
(@tw2113)

The BenchPresser

9 years, 1 month ago

We don’t do anything special to taxonomies or post types that would limit how you use them in any other function/query that is available to WordPress. We’re doing the equivalent of running register_post_type() and register_taxonomy() for you with the settings chosen or default values.

If nothing from the code above is being displayed, then it sounds like the issue may be that $customPostTaxonomies is empty, or some part of your arguments aren’t returning anything.

Plugin Contributor Michael Beckwith
(@tw2113)

The BenchPresser

9 years ago

Out of curiosity, do you have taxonomy terms assigned to publish posts yet? By default, it’s set to hide empty terms, unless you set ‘hide_empty’ to false

Thread Starter ALDesigner
(@aldesigner)

9 years ago

At present, yes. I have only created one custom taxonomy as of yet, and I’ve assigned it to all of my test posts.
Thread Starter ALDesigner
(@aldesigner)

9 years ago
Just used this just to see the output:
```
<?php

   $taxonomy_names = get_object_taxonomies( 'post' );
   print_r( $taxonomy_names);

?>
```
Got this:
Array ( [0] => category [1] => post_tag [2] => post_format )

Then tried:
```
<?php

   $taxonomy_names = get_object_taxonomies( 'awards' );
   print_r( $taxonomy_names);

?>
```
Got this:
Array ( )

Awards is the custom taxonomy that I created that the test custom posts are associated with.
Thread Starter ALDesigner
(@aldesigner)

9 years ago

I was able to get it to work by renaming the custom taxonomy. I was unaware that having a “-” in the name would interfere with using it as an argument within wp_list_categories().

Plugin Contributor Michael Beckwith
(@tw2113)

The BenchPresser

9 years ago

Looks like it’s not getting attached properly, with those results.

Are you willing to let me log in and see things first hand?

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