Kat Hagan

Thanks for this! I was overjoyed to dig into the code and find that custom taxonomies are supported.

I had to make a small modification so that it would use BOTH the category and the custom taxonomy option (returning results that were in either the post’s category or the provided taxonomy). Adding multiple custom taxonomies would be pretty much the same.

Here’s what I did (in CatList.php):

// Added custom taxonomy support
        if ( !empty($this->params['taxonomy']) && !empty($this->params['tags']) ) {
          $args['tax_query'] = array(
              'relation' => 'OR',
              array(
                'taxonomy' => $this->params['taxonomy'],
                'field' => 'slug',
                'terms' => explode(",",$this->params['tags'])
              ),
              array(
                'taxonomy' => 'category',
                'field' => 'id',
                'terms' => explode(",",$this->lcp_category_id)
              )
          );
        } else if ( !empty($this->params['tags']) ) {
          $args['cat'] = $this->lcp_category_id;
          $args['tag'] = $this->params['tags'];
        }
        else {
          $args['cat'] = $this->lcp_category_id;
        }

The “relation => OR” is what does the magic of combining the results of the two arrays. You’d use “AND” if you want to return only posts that are in both.

Also, you have to take the $args[‘cat’] out at the top of that function (I just declared $args as an empty array); if ‘cat’ is defined in $args, it will ignore the tax_query and JUST return results from the category, so that’s why the ugly “else” code up there.

Just a five-minute hack but maybe it will help someone.