Title: Custom Post Type Query
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Custom Post Type Query

 *  [staceyzav](https://wordpress.org/support/users/staceyzav/)
 * (@staceyzav)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-query/)
 * I am modifying a theme that query’s post categories that you choose from the 
   wordpress dashboard. I have added a custom post type and I want to pull in a 
   specific category from the custom post type instead. I would like to hard-code
   this category into the theme file (instead of making it editable from the wordpress
   dashboard as it is now). I just need to figure out the query for the custom post
   type. post types are named “Listings” and I want to be able to pull in 6 posts
   from a category within the custom post type with the either the slug or category
   id.
 * Here is my modified functions code that created the custom post types:
 *     ```
       /** Listings */
       add_action('init', 'listing_register');
   
       function listing_register() {
   
       	$labels = array(
       		'name' => _x('Listings', 'post type general name'),
       		'singular_name' => _x('listing Item', 'post type singular name'),
       		'add_new' => _x('Add New', 'listing item'),
       		'add_new_item' => __('Add New listing Item'),
       		'edit_item' => __('Edit listing Item'),
       		'new_item' => __('New listing Item'),
       		'view_item' => __('View listing Item'),
       		'search_items' => __('Search listing'),
       		'not_found' =>  __('Nothing found'),
       		'not_found_in_trash' => __('Nothing found in Trash'),
       		'parent_item_colon' => ''
       	);
   
       	$args = array(
       		'labels' => $labels,
       		'public' => true,
       		'publicly_queryable' => true,
       		'show_ui' => true,
       		'query_var' => true,
       		'menu_icon' => get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/article16.png',
       		'rewrite' => true,
       		'capability_type' => 'post',
       		'hierarchical' => false,
       		'menu_position' => null,
       		'supports' => array('title','editor','thumbnail')
       	  ); 
   
       	register_post_type( 'listing' , $args );
       }
   
       register_taxonomy("listing_category", array("listing"), array("hierarchical" => true, "label" => "Categories", "singular_label" => "Category", "rewrite" => true));
       ```
   
 * Here is the code from the theme file that currently pulls in categories from 
   a regular post:
 *     ```
       <?php
       			$cc = 0;
       			$c = 10;
   
       			$posts_num = option::get('featured_categories_posts');
   
       			while ($cc < $c)
       			{
   
       				$cc++;
       				$category = option::get('featured_category_'.$cc);
   
       				if ($category != 0)
       				{
   
       					$cat = get_category($$category,false);
       					$catlink = get_category_link($$category);
   
       					$loop = new WP_Query( array( 'post__not_in' => get_option( 'sticky_posts' ), 'posts_per_page' => $posts_num, 'orderby' => 'date', 'order' => 'DESC', 'cat' => $category ) );
       					?>
   
       					<div id="tab1" class="tab_content">
       					<?php if ( $loop->have_posts() ) : ?>
       					<ul class="posts">
       						<?php
       						$x = 0;
       						while ($loop->have_posts()) : $loop->the_post(); update_post_caches($posts); $x++;
       						?>
       						<li<?php if ($x == 6) {echo ' class="last"';} ?>>
   
       							<div class="cover">
       								<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><img src="<?php echo $image; ?>" alt="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" /></a>
       							</div>
   
       							<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
   
       						</li><?php endwhile; ?>
   
       					</ul><?php endif; ?>
   
       					</div><!-- end .tab_content -->
   
       				<?php } // if category is set
       			} // endwhile ?>
       ```
   
 * Thanks in advance!

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 *  Thread Starter [staceyzav](https://wordpress.org/support/users/staceyzav/)
 * (@staceyzav)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-query/#post-2882192)
 * I’m really close here – I now have the custom post type query working but can’t
   get the category/taxonomy within the post-type to work
 *     ```
       <ul class="posts">
            <?php
            $query = new WP_Query(array('post_type' => 'listing', 'Category' => get_the_term_list( $post->ID, '60' )));
            while ($query->have_posts()) : $query->the_post();
            ?>
   
         <li>
            <div class="related-thumb"><a href="<? the_permalink()?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('medium'); ?></a></div>
            <h2><a href=" title="<?php the_title(); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
            <h4><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "Description", true); ?></h4>
            <div class="clear"></div>
         </li>
   
           <?php endwhile; wp_reset_query(); ?>
        </ul>
       ```
   
 * It is just pulling all the posts from the Listings Post type.
 *  Thread Starter [staceyzav](https://wordpress.org/support/users/staceyzav/)
 * (@staceyzav)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-query/#post-2882197)
 * Well, I figured it out! For those of you with the same type of question: THIS
   WORKS!!!
 *     ```
       <?php
         query_posts( array( 'post_type' => 'listing', 'listing_category' => 'acupuncture-naturopathic' ) );
         if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
       ?>
   
         <h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
         <?php the_content(); ?>
   
       <?php endwhile; endif; wp_reset_query(); ?>
       ```
   
 *  [deepbevel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deepbevel/)
 * (@deepbevel)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-query/#post-2882200)
 * nice, I was just working on the same and arrived at similar. I also discoverd
   how to output the category link. Just have to change to your taxonomy:
 *     ```
       <?php
       //list terms in a given taxonomy (useful as a widget for twentyten)
       $taxonomy = 'productscat';
       $tax_terms = get_terms($taxonomy);
       ?>
       <ul>
       <?php
       foreach ($tax_terms as $tax_term) {
       echo '<li>' . '<a href="' . esc_attr(get_term_link($tax_term, $taxonomy)) . '" title="' . sprintf( __( "View all posts in %s" ), $tax_term->name ) . '" ' . '>' . $tax_term->name.'</a></li>';
       }
       ?>
       </ul>
       ```
   
 * seems a lot for what is ussually just the_category..

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