Taxonomy Widget Plugin

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1. shawn May 26, 2010 at 11:40 pm

   OK, here’s a tough one that I can’t figure out.

   I am using the tax widget and it functions exactly as it should. However I am still working out my function for the taxonomy template display. Have posted a few places but no response yet. Maybe you have run into this before.

   Scenario:
   I have a custom taxonomy registered to multiple post types. When I go to a page that shows the taxonomy, I am trying to write a function that will sort the results depending upon the post type.

   example link:
   http://deardaddy.org/series/unidos-messages/

   What that is ‘supposed’ to be doing, is separating out the results and placing the results from post type ‘sermons’ first, and then display the ‘podcasts’ second. I am rolling with 2 separate loops to do this.

   'sermons','taxonomy'=>'series','term'=>$term->slug);
$query = new WP_Query ($wpq);
while ( have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
//do stuff

   The problem is my first argument post_type ‘sermons’ is being ignored. I have tried every variation I can think of but none work.

   Do you have any ideas or see something wrong with the code example above?

   –once fixed I do plan on extending the function to allow paging, possibly via ajax, per post_type. Still working that concept out in my head.

2. Michael Fields May 27, 2010 at 12:01 am

   Shawn,
   Hmmm, your code looks alright to me, but I have little experience thus far with use of custom post types. Did you try to reset the query before you ran the first custom loop? This might help. I’m going to play around with this for a few minutes and see if I can find an easy solution. This is a pretty neat idea that others would find useful as well.

3. Michael Fields May 27, 2010 at 12:03 am

   BTW, in the future, if you want to post code wrap the code in php shortcodes – [ php ] [/ php ] – and it should render nicely

4. shawn May 27, 2010 at 12:06 am

   Yes, I reset the query prior to use, sorry, should have included that in example code.

   You are correct, with post types, these are the type of questions that are going to be coming up over and over again. That is the hard part for me, being that I am so far ahead of the game with 3.0 being beta and all. There are very few of us actually ‘pushing the boundaries’ of post types right now, which makes support resources hard to come by. To date, even though my sandbox site looks basic, I believe that it’s one of the most advanced examples out there right now. Especially when you consider that I am using multi-relational post types. Meaning when I add a ‘sermon’ I can select to relate it to podcasts, so data is only entered once per instance. (props to Scribu on that one)

   thanks for info on php, didn’t see it in your list below, so didn’t think to try it. duhhh lol

5. Michael Fields May 27, 2010 at 1:58 am

   Here’s my solution which worked on 3.0 BETA (which ever build I downloaded last week). Repeat this block for each post type you would like to display:

   $my_query = get_posts( array(
   	'numberposts' => -1,
   	'post_type' => 'page',
   	'taxonomy' => $term->taxonomy,
   	'term' => $term->slug
   	) );
   
   if( $my_query ) {
   	print '<h2>Pages</h2>';
   	foreach( $my_query as $post ) {
   		setup_postdata( $post );
   		the_title( '', ' - <b>' . $post->post_type . '</b><br />' );
   	}
   }
   

6. shawn May 27, 2010 at 2:23 am

   OK, I know that this is going to sound really amateurish, but I’m a bit stuck converting your script with mine.

   Basically I use the normal have posts followed by ‘normal’ theme styled output like:

   <  php
   $wpq = array (post_type =>'sermons','taxonomy'=>'series','term'=>$term->slug);
   $query = new WP_Query ($wpq);
   while ( have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   					<  php do_action( 'bp_before_blog_post' ) ?>
   					<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"
   <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
     						<div class="author-box-video-archive">
   <  php $video = shawn_embed('width=200&height=150'); ?>
                       			<?php
                       			if (!empty($video)){ ?>
                       			<div class="video <?php echo $GLOBALS['single_align']; ?>">
                       				<?php echo $video; ?>
                       			</div><!-- /.image -->
                       	<?php } ?>
     						</div>
                                     //etc etc etc....
   				<  php endwhile;  wp_reset_query();  >
   

   I somewhat see how your function above is doing what it is doing, but I can’t seem to figure out how to insert it into your query properly. I should note that I have no php background, learning on the fly, but trying very hard.

   I did try your example and it did work exactly as expected. So we know the function works even on last nights build.

7. Michael Fields May 27, 2010 at 2:44 am

   You just have to stick your code in the middle somehow:

   if( $my_query ) {
   	print '<h2>Posts</h2>';
   	foreach( $my_query as $post ) { ?>
   	//Stick your code in here - the "Loop" code
   	<?php }
   }
   

8. shawn May 27, 2010 at 2:54 am

   :) It worked perfectly.
   http://deardaddy.org/series/the-anointing/

   I can actually see a lot of people needing this in the future, should add it to your code snippets section.

   What is going to be really cool is when I figure out the ajax, so you see 5, but ‘click more’ and 5 more show up etc.. kind of like how the bp activity stream does it. That’s about the only way I see to paginate multiple content types in a way that makes sense to people

9. Michael Fields May 27, 2010 at 3:29 am

   Awesome! Glad it worked for you. Definitely going to add this to the snippets section. And your jQuery idea for pagination sounds cool, if you get it up and running, please let us know how you did it!

10. shawn May 28, 2010 at 1:56 am

    Just so you don’t also end up banging your head into the same wall. It turns out that it was not working, and now I know why. Wp does not support sort via custom post_type + taxonomy term yet.
    http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/13582

    For awhile there, I thought I was really loosing my mind. I never would have guessed that it wasn’t available natively in wp. At least now we know. The good news, if there is any, is at least this will be such a fundamental requirement, that I expect a patch rather soon.

11. Ron Earl Phillips May 20, 2011 at 1:52 am

    I just noticed this tonight that the widget will show a taxonomy for a post that hasn’t been posted yet. I scheduled a story for a new author, and sure enough it’s in my sidebar. :(

    Maybe something you can fix for the next release.