Custom taxonomy and query_posts

I know that there was a bug like what you describe and that is fixed in the coming Version 3.0. I just don’t know if the bug existed at 2.9.2.

With a post_type of book, and a taxonomy of genre, this returns books where the genre is mystery:

<?php
$args=array(
  'genre' => 'mystery',
  'post_type' => 'book',
  'post_status' => 'publish',
  'posts_per_page' => -1,
  'caller_get_posts'=> 1
);
$my_query = null;
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
  echo 'List of Books with genre of mystery';
  while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
    <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
    <?php
  endwhile;
}
wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?>

Hi everybody! In the Code which MichaelH we decide to show jsut the posts which are in the “genre” (or taxonomy) which is called “mystery”. How can we show ALL the posts which are NOT with the genre “mystery” ??? Please help me!!! Thank you so much

@leroy12

Did you ever figure this out? I’m having the same problem, it just returns everything from that post type and ignores the taxonomy.

Hello,

Me neither, it just ignores the taxonomy and spits out all posts from post_type.

Anybody got any ideas?

@wownewmedia & @alanchrishughes:

I had the same problem. The WP_query() or query_posts() just spitted out all the posts from my custom post type Factory, ignoring my custom taxonomy selection.

It started to work after I changed "rewrite" => true in register_taxonomy() to:

register_taxonomy("factoryType", array("factory"), array("hierarchical" => true, "label" => "Factory Types", "singular_label" => "Factory Type", "rewrite" => array("slug" => "factorytype")));

in my template file:

<?php
$args=array(
  'factorytype' => 'small-factory',
  'post_type' => 'factory',
  'posts_per_page' => 10,
  'caller_get_posts'=> 1
);
$my_query = null;
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
  while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
    <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
    <?php
  endwhile;
}
wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?>

Hm… I think I’ve got mine working.

Sorry if it’s just stating the obvious, it wasn’t for me 🙁 Spent about 1 hour trying to figure out what I was doing wrong.

You should use a slug of taxonomy’s term (think slug of a category) as the value for registered taxonomy. I’ll reuse @hawken1 code for my example.

1) So you have your post type registered as “factory”.

2) Your taxonomy registered as “factorytype”:

$args = array(
   "hierarchical" => true,
   "label" => "Factory Types",
   "singular_label" => "Factory Type",
   //this is 'your_registered_taxonomy_name', here 'factorytype'
   "rewrite" => array("slug" => "factorytype")
);

register_taxonomy("factoryType", array("factory"), $args);

3) You added some taxonomies terms for your “factory” type (similar as you add categories to a post). So use the slug of your created taxonomy term, not name, not id, but SLUG.
Say I created a taxonomy term (think category) with the name “Small factory” and slug “small-factory” for the “factory” post type.

So to get only factories of “Small factory” type, you’d use code as in @hawken1 example:

<?php
$args=array(
   //'your_registered_taxonomy_name' => 'taxonomy_term_slug'
  'factorytype' => 'small-factory',
  'post_type' => 'factory',
  'posts_per_page' => 10,
  'caller_get_posts'=> 1
);
$my_query = null;
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
  while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
    <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
    <?php
  endwhile;
}
wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?>

@pnd.simpson

Oh that’s cool – much crearer. Thanks for posting it 🙂