Title: Multiple Post Types in same custom taxonomy Last modified: January 19, 2017 --- # Multiple Post Types in same custom taxonomy * Resolved [VGJ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vgj/) * (@vgj) * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-post-types-in-same-custom-taxonomy/) * I have a project that requires multiple custom post types to be in the same custom taxonomy. I also need to be able to manually sort all custom post types in that custom taxonomy. Is it possible with this plugin? * Thanks in advance. Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * Plugin Author [Aurovrata Venet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aurovrata/) * (@aurovrata) * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-post-types-in-same-custom-taxonomy/#post-8675204) * that’s a good question, and frankly I don’t know. You’ll need to run a test on a sample site to figure it out. I would need to dive into the code to give you a concrete answer, but I got a feeling it should be possible to make it work with a a few tweaks if it isn’t working already. * It would be great to have that functionality. Let me know if you test this out. * Thread Starter [VGJ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vgj/) * (@vgj) * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-post-types-in-same-custom-taxonomy/#post-8675627) * Thanks for the quick response. It does not work and seems to have issues. I ordered perfectly within one custom post type. However, when I went to order the other custom post type using the same taxonomy it shows errors due to how it only grabs posts from the same post type. * I need to have something working sooner rather than later and may just create a separate plugin to accomplish this. I was hoping this functionality was already in a plugin. * Thanks for the plugin. * Plugin Author [Aurovrata Venet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aurovrata/) * (@aurovrata) * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-post-types-in-same-custom-taxonomy/#post-8676672) * Want to try to make it work in this plugin? You could submit a PR in the github [repo](https://github.com/aurovrata/ReOrder-posts-within-categories). * I could give you pointers as to how to get it to work. - This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by [Aurovrata Venet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aurovrata/). * Thread Starter [VGJ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vgj/) * (@vgj) * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-post-types-in-same-custom-taxonomy/#post-8677166) * So I got it to work in a very hackish way. I am not sure of the direction you are going with this plugin. I would be happy to share my code to contribute to the plugin but without any guidance on your future plans I am unsure what the best method to handle such requests. In a brief summary, I added a link to reorder under Posts in the left menu using a copy of the function add_order_pages and naming it add_generic_order_pages with some modifications to use printGenericOrderPage, instead of printOrderPage. A better location for the link would be ideal. I then removed all restrictions of post_types in the printGernericOrderPage function. * I can clean it up if you want or I can send you the updated file. so that you can clean up. As a small side note. There are errors that I found when trying to accomplish all this. If someone has a taxonomy that has multiple post types and then tries to reorder the posts in each post types, errors will occur since the code is requesting a particular post type. My suggestion is to have the database track post type taxonomy relationship order or just open it up to all post types and not limit it. * Please let me know how you feel it should be and I can clean up and send PR. * Plugin Author [Aurovrata Venet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aurovrata/) * (@aurovrata) * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-post-types-in-same-custom-taxonomy/#post-8677222) * Great! The main thing is that you have now got a solution for your immediate need. * I would be happy to get the code to see how you got it to work. If you have it forked in github, do share the repo and I will take a look at it, else send me a copy (vrata at syllogic dot in). * As for future direction, the truth is this plugin ain’t my code originally. The author abandoned the plugin and I started to maintain a gitHub repo to fix bugs as I and several other people found this plugin really useful. Now WP allows abandoned plugins to be adopted and I did just that. * I have added very little extra functionality since then, mainly using filters to allow others to hook custom functionality. * I would like to see if we can enable your solution with a hook in the short-term. * in the long term I would like to, 1. re-code the plugin using BoilerPlate 3.0 plugin template as I find it much easier to maintain 2. re-organise the dashboard interaction to make it a little more intuitive * wrt the 2nd point, were would you see your reorder page menu in the dashboard? Maybe under the Appearance section, as a theme customization section? * Thread Starter [VGJ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vgj/) * (@vgj) * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-post-types-in-same-custom-taxonomy/#post-8679672) * I have forked the repo and added the fix. You can find it, with the fix, [here](https://github.com/rmendoza3/ReOrder-posts-within-categories). Again this is a hack. If you would like some help on moving over to BoilerPlate 3.0 and reorganize the plugin, I would be happy to help. This code seems like I might be needing and reusing this for the project in many aspects. I am sure I am not the only person in the world that has a need for this. * Plugin Author [Aurovrata Venet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aurovrata/) * (@aurovrata) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-post-types-in-same-custom-taxonomy/#post-8818248) * Hi [@vgj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vgj/) * thanks for sharing the repo, sorry for this late reply, I got caught up with other work. * The help to refactor the code is much welcomed. I will start to look at your code and setup a new branch on github on which we can start to collaborate on the BP3.0 template structure. * Give me a few weeks, as I have quite a lot on my plate right now. I will post back on this thread once I am ready. * Plugin Author [Aurovrata Venet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aurovrata/) * (@aurovrata) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-post-types-in-same-custom-taxonomy/#post-8999696) * HI [@vgj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vgj/) * I have been thinking about the next evolution of this plugin and I am inclined to explore the possibility of enabling the ordering using WP-core functionality. Currently the plugin makes use of a custom table to store the term orders, but I think we could do away with that and instead store the order within each post as a meta field. * Each post associated with a term would have the following meta field construct, * `_reorder-posts__ = ` * this approach solves your problem nicely since we are no longer storing the order at the taxonomy/slug level and therefore multiple post types can be ordered for a given taxonomy. * The other advantage is that it allows more control over the display of these ordered posts in theme page templates. A settings would allow a user to either let the plugin manage the post query order automatically, or to allow the user to define the [order within the post loop itself](https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters), by selecting the `'orderby'=>'meta_value_num'` and setting up the above meta key in the query. * What do you think? Can you see any down-side to this approach? * Thread Starter [VGJ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vgj/) * (@vgj) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-post-types-in-same-custom-taxonomy/#post-9007636) * I think this works. At first thought, I do not see any issues. I would like to add that this should work for all post types. But yes, this is a great start. * Plugin Author [Aurovrata Venet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aurovrata/) * (@aurovrata) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-post-types-in-same-custom-taxonomy/#post-9011772) * great, currently I am very busy with some big project involving complex form structures. I am working on a new plugin extension for Contact Form 7 which allows for highly complex forms to be created and formatted as responsive table layouts. I should be done with this project in the month of may I reckon, by which time I should be able to start on this work. * If you are still interested in collaborating, what aspect of the plugin do you feel most confident to take up? * Thread Starter [VGJ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vgj/) * (@vgj) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-post-types-in-same-custom-taxonomy/#post-9028452) * I can always help with anything you need. I am currently busy with an issue and the main culprit is this plugin. It seems to have an issue with trying to get posts in custom wp_query object. When I have more information I will definitely bring them to your attention. Sorry for being vague but I thought I would at least mention it. 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