Template listing all posts in entire custom taxonomy

[carrieoke13]

Hi,

I've created a custom taxonomy on my site called "schools" for tagging regular posts with school information. Now I'm wanting to have a page that shows all posts in the "schools" taxonomy, organized by their terms. So, I have two terms in the "schools" taxonomy thus far - Parsons and UGA. I want the page to show:

Parsons
Post 1
Post 2

UGA
Post 1
Post 2

I've gotten as far as a listing of the terms in the taxonomy by creating a custom page template using this:

<?php

/**
 * Template Name: School Listing
 */

add_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'add_taxonomy_list', 5 );

function add_taxonomy_list() {

    $args = array(
        'format' => 'list',
        'taxonomy' => 'schools',
    );

    wp_tag_cloud( $args);

}

genesis();

and it's working (unstyled) here: http://identitywebandphoto.com/abby/wordpress/lesson-listing/

How would I show the posts under each of those terms?

Thanks,
Carrie

[Brad Dalton]

Create a new WP_Query http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query

You could then use get_template_part() to output the lists in any WordPress or Genesis hook position.

Another option is to create 2 new template files and use the WordPress Template Hierarchy. One for each term and then use get_template_part() to display them in any hook position or directly in any template.

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[carrieoke13]

Hi Brad,
so I've got something working but it's a page template and I feel like maybe there is a better way to do it using Genesis hooks?

I used the Minimum Pro archive portfolio template and put this in it (because I want the list styled like the portfolio template):

    //this loop returns all posts separated by genres they belong to
    $post_type = 'post'; // <-- put your custom post type here
    $tax = 'schools'; // <-- put your custom taxonomy here
    $tax_terms = get_terms($tax);
    if ($tax_terms) {
      foreach ($tax_terms as $tax_term) {
        
        $args=array(
          'post_type' => $post_type,
          "$tax" => $tax_term->slug,
          '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 $tax_term->name;
          while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
       <div class="portfolio-image"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></div>
            
	<?php

if ( $image = genesis_get_image( 'format=url&size=portfolio' ) ) {
		printf( '<div class="portfolio-image"><a href="%s" rel="bookmark"><img src="%s" alt="%s" /></a></div>', get_permalink(), $image, the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) );

	}

          endwhile;
        }
		
		
	

		
		
        wp_reset_query();
      }
    }
}

and here's what it looks like right now: http://identitywebandphoto.com/abby/wordpress/testing-posts/

[Brad Dalton]

That's another way to do it however i think a custom genesis loop is best to maintain styling.

You could also use http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_post_terms

You could output using a custom function with hook and template tag like this:

Change comments to the name of your file and template using get_template_part()

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