Title: Custom post categories listing with loop?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Custom post categories listing with loop?

 *  [sobaksobak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sobaksobak/)
 * (@sobaksobak)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-categories-listing-with-loop/)
 * I’m not a programmer so please excuse my ‘noviceness’.
 * The site I run has two custom post types. One of them is ‘portfolio-category’(
   slug).
    I wanted to have a page where I can show only the particular custom posts
   categorised by the custom taxonomy (a set of categories) for that post type. 
   I looked everywhere but couldn’t find anything so I ‘hacked’ around and found
   one very silly way to make it work.
 *     ```
       <h3>Weddings</h3>
       <ul>
       <?php
       global $post;
       $args = array( 'post_type' => 'portfolio', 'portfolio-category' => 'wedding' );
       $myposts = get_posts( $args );
       foreach( $myposts as $post ) :	setup_postdata($post); ?>
       <li class="_archive"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class"_archivelink"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
       <?php endforeach; ?>
       </ul>
       ```
   
 * Basically, I repeated this snippet for each category including the heading (static).
   Stupid, I know but not having learned PHP from ground up I have no idea how to
   make this more elegant. I can only guess that I could use Loop function.. That’s
   as far as I went and I’m giving up after spending pretty much all day on this.
 * I’m sure there are experts out there who could advise me what to do?
 * Thank you for your kind help.

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 *  [Alicia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amduffy/)
 * (@amduffy)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-categories-listing-with-loop/#post-3878303)
 * Is this custom taxonomy (portfolio-category) only used by your portfolio post
   type?
    If so, there are category archive lists are already created for you at(
   for example) [http://www.url.com/portfolio-category/weddings/](http://www.url.com/portfolio-category/weddings/)
 * If you want to make a custom template for these archives you can copy archive.
   php and rename it to taxonomy-portfolio-category.php (I think, or taxonomy-portfolio_category.
   php). Should automatically pick it up.
 *  Thread Starter [sobaksobak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sobaksobak/)
 * (@sobaksobak)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-categories-listing-with-loop/#post-3878332)
 * sorry, I should have my question more clear.
 * [http://songyknox.com/portfolio-list/](http://songyknox.com/portfolio-list/)
   
   This is the page I created but using the following.
 *     ```
       <h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
       				<h3>Weddings</h3>
       					<ul>
       						<?php
       						global $post;
       						$args = array( 'post_type' => 'portfolio', 'portfolio-category' => 'wedding' );
       						$myposts = get_posts( $args );
       						foreach( $myposts as $post ) :	setup_postdata($post); ?>
       						<li class="_archive"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class"_archivelink"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
       						<?php endforeach; ?>
       					</ul>
   
       				<h3>Baby</h3>
       					<ul>
       						<?php
       						global $post;
       						$args = array( 'post_type' => 'portfolio', 'portfolio-category' => 'baby' );
       						$myposts = get_posts( $args );
       						foreach( $myposts as $post ) :	setup_postdata($post); ?>
       						<li class="_archive"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="_archivelink"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
       						<?php endforeach; ?>
       					</ul>
       				<h3>Engagement</h3>
       					<ul>
       						<?php
       						global $post;
       						$args = array( 'post_type' => 'portfolio', 'portfolio-category' => 'engagement' );
       						$myposts = get_posts( $args );
       						foreach( $myposts as $post ) :	setup_postdata($post); ?>
       						<li class="_archive"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="_archivelink"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
       						<?php endforeach; ?>
       					</ul>
       				<h3>Catwalk</h3>
       					<ul>
       						<?php
       						global $post;
       						$args = array( 'post_type' => 'portfolio', 'portfolio-category' => 'catwalk' );
       						$myposts = get_posts( $args );
       						foreach( $myposts as $post ) :	setup_postdata($post); ?>
       						<li class="_archive"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="_archivelink"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
       						<?php endforeach; ?>
       					</ul>
   
       				<h3>Event</h3>
       					<ul>
       						<?php
       						global $post;
       						$args = array( 'post_type' => 'portfolio', 'portfolio-category' => 'event' );
       						$myposts = get_posts( $args );
       						foreach( $myposts as $post ) :	setup_postdata($post); ?>
       						<li class="_archive"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="_archivelink"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
       						<?php endforeach; ?>
       					</ul>
   
       				<h3>Interior</h3>
       					<ul>
       						<?php
       						global $post;
       						$args = array( 'post_type' => 'portfolio', 'portfolio-category' => 'interior-photography' );
       						$myposts = get_posts( $args );
       						foreach( $myposts as $post ) :	setup_postdata($post); ?>
       						<li class="_archive"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="_archivelink"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
       						<?php endforeach; ?>
       					</ul>
       				<h3>Portrait</h3>
       					<ul>
       						<?php
       						global $post;
       						$args = array( 'post_type' => 'portfolio', 'portfolio-category' => 'portrait' );
       						$myposts = get_posts( $args );
       						foreach( $myposts as $post ) :	setup_postdata($post); ?>
       						<li class="_archive"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="_archivelink"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
       						<?php endforeach; ?>
       					</ul>
       ```
   
 * It’s repeating the same thing for every category. I’m sure there would be a way
   to make them dynamic for <h3> and the post listing for each category. I hope 
   this makes sense.
 * Thank you.

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