Thanks for your question – I want to make sure I understand it. It looks like you are using the WP_Query class in your PHP code to find items to process, something like thie:
// The Query
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
Is that right? If not, could you post an update with more information and/or an example of your code?
If I understand the question, the answer is straightforward. The MLA Att. Tags and Att. Categories are implemented as WordPress custom taxonomies. You can use them in your WP_Query arguments, referring to them by their slugs, attachment_tag and attachment_category. You can use any of the WP_Query Taxonomy Parameters documented in the Codex. For example:
$the_query = new WP_Query( array( 'attachment_tag="term-slug" );
You can also use the more powerful “tax query” syntax to perform more complex queries, and you can add the taxonomy parameter to other WP_Query parameters to build your query.
I hope that answers your question, and I am marking this topic resolved. Please update it if I did not understand the question or if you have problems with or more questions about using the MLA taxonomies in your queries. Thanks for your interest in the plugin.
