Query custom taxonomy posts

  • Stef Verbeeck

    (@twizted)


    15 years, 2 months ago

    Hi all,

    I’m building a website that has a portfolio full of project references, using the custom post type “clients”.

    Using a “type-clients.php” template file and following code I’m able to show all these clients and have them refer to their respective single post version using a “single-client.php”.

    <?php query_posts('posts_per_page=50&post_type=clients'); ?>

    Works like a charm. For these clients however, I have provided a range of “services” as a custom taxonomy, used to display which services were used for a specific client. I managed to list the services for a client using the following code, which actually shows the selected services for that client and makes them clickable.

    `<?php echo cc_get_the_term_list($post->ID, ‘services’, ‘ ‘, ‘, ‘, ”, 0); ?>’

    When a link for such a service is clicked, I would like to show all other clients that used this service. If I click the link, the page mysite.com/services/selected-service is loaded using my “taxonomy-services.php” template, but it shows ALL clients instead of only those for the “selected-service”.

    What query do I need to put in my template to make sure only the clients that belong to a certain service are shown? I want to do the same as with old-fashioned categories, so that site.com/category-name only shows posts for that specific category in the url.

    Thanks in advance for any help.

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  • Thread Starter Stef Verbeeck

    (@twizted)

    15 years, 2 months ago

    I tried this:

    <?php
query_posts( array('taxonomy' => 'services', 'posts_per_page' => 50) ); ?>

    Butt it didn’t work. All it does is display my 50 latest posts in the classic ‘posts’ type. No clients, not belonging to any services specified in the url. 🙁

    Thread Starter Stef Verbeeck

    (@twizted)

    15 years, 2 months ago

    Okay, for those who encounter the same problem and want to display the posts within a custom taxonomy like you display the posts within a classic category, here are the two steps:

    1. create a template called “taxonomy-xxx.php”, where xxx is the custom taxonomy name
    2. use this code: <?php $term = get_term_by( ‘slug’, get_query_var( ‘term’ ), get_query_var( ‘taxonomy’ ) ); ?> instead of query_posts to show the posts for the selected taxonomy

    Thanks to Monday By Noon for ending my day-long quest and answering a question which should NOT be so hard to find an answer to imho…

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