Show all custom post types organized by custom taxonomy

Same concept as this post, except using custom taxonomies and post types

I had the same problem. I did a ton of research, and honestly, I couldn’t find an answer, however, I tried copy and pasting from your link and then copied the tax_query from this post: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/49185/tax-query-parameter-not-working-with-wp-query

Some how it worked…I honestly don’t know what the difference was, but here was my raw code:

<?php
//get all categories then display all posts in each term
$taxonomy = 'vc-memorial';
$term_args=array(
  'orderby' => 'name',
  'order' => 'ASC'
);
$terms = get_terms($taxonomy,$term_args);
if ($terms) {
  foreach( $terms as $term ) {
    $args=array(
      'post_type' => 'vc-memorial-us',
      'post_status' => 'publish',
      'posts_per_page' => -1,
      'caller_get_posts'=> 1,
	  'tax_query' => array(
			array(
				'taxonomy' => 'vc-memorial',
				'terms' => array($term->term_id),
				'include_children' => true,
				'operator' => 'IN'
			)
		)
      );
    $my_query = null;
    $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
    if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {  ?>
      <div class="category section">
	    <h3><?php echo 'Category '.$term->name;?></h3>
	    <ul>
	    <?php
      while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
        <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
        <div><?php the_excerpt ?></div>
       <?php
      endwhile;
      ?>
      </ul>
      </div>
 <?php
    }
  }
}
wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?>

Here are the final results with just adding some design to it: https://viatorians.wpengine.com/resources/in-memoriam/

I hope that helps.

Thank you,
Anthony

Fine but how would you add the above code to category.php and display current category post types divided by current category children?

I’m not sure if I understand your question. If you are using category.php you are only going to be able to sort the categories within the posts. The purpose of the code above is for custom post types with custom taxonomies, so the above code would need to added to some other template than your category.php.

If you are looking to do this for each category (for Posts only), then this resource should help you out: https://eisabainyo.net/weblog/2010/03/10/display-5-latest-posts-in-each-category-in-wordpress/

I hope that helps,
Anthony

Thanks Anthony but it’s not what I expected.
You have provided me the query on the page.

I need to list post types from current category divided by category like:

cat1
– post1
– post2

cat2
-post3
-post4

Now I list all posts like:

<ul class="categorylist">
<?php
   $catID = get_query_var('cat');
   $catName = strtolower(get_cat_name($catID));
    if ( get_query_var('paged') ) {
        $paged = get_query_var('paged');
    } elseif ( get_query_var('page') ) {
        $paged = get_query_var('page');
    } else {
        $paged = 1;
    }

	$myquery = new WP_Query(array(
    'post_type' => 'products',
    'cat' => $catID)
    );
   //echo'<pre>';print_r($myquery);echo'</pre>';
    while ( $myquery->have_posts() ) : 

        $myquery->the_post();
        $img_id = get_post_meta($post->ID,'thumbnail',true);
        $img_url = wp_get_attachment_url($img_id);
        $feat_image = wp_get_attachment_url( get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID) );
        $cat = get_the_category();
        $parentCatName = get_cat_name($cat[0]->parent);
        $prodCatName = get_cat_name($cat[0]);
        ?>
        <li>
            <?php $src = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID )); ?>
            <div class="categorylistimg">

<?php
    // If post thumbnail exists, if not use this image
    if ((function_exists('has_post_thumbnail')) && (has_post_thumbnail())) { ?>

   <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php echo $parentCatName; ?> - <?php the_title(); ?>">
                <img alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" title="<?php echo $parentCatName; ?> - <?php the_title(); ?>" data-imgw="50" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/thumb.php?src=<?php echo $src[0]; ?>&h=50&w=50&zc=2&q=90" />
            </a> 

			<?php }  else {
        echo '<img src="/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/default.jpg" alt="noimage" title="no image"/>';
    }
?>
           </div>
			  <div class="categorylisttitle">
            <strong><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php echo $parentCatName; ?> - <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></strong>

<span class="excerptprod">
<?php $excerpt = strip_tags(get_the_excerpt());
        echo $excerpt; ?>
</span>
		</div>
        </li>
    <?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>

Mariusz,

Overall, I’m a bit confused. It maybe just an issue of semantics, but is enough for me not to understand the question. When you say, “I need to list post types from current category divided by category…” Are we dealing with custom post types/taxonomies? If so, the all the functions associated with categories, don’t work. (Please someone correct me if my this is incorrect), the category functions only work with posts and not custom post types.

So, my original code should work for you if you are working with custom post types/taxonomies, but won’t work if they are simply categories with the post section. For the categories the link I included should work (although I did not test it out).

Let me know if that helps.

Thank you,
Anthony

@adarco – this is huge! just what I was looking for, thank you so much!
-jennyb

any chance you a trick for excluding child taxonomies from the list? setting “include_children” to “false” does not seem to do the trick…

thnx!
-jennyb

nevermind, got it. added 'parent' => 0 to the term_args and all is well ??

thanks again,
-jennyb