Taxonomy term descriptions in below post content

  • Resolved Anonymous User 303747

    (@anonymized-303747)


    15 years, 1 month ago

    Folks,

    I am trying to show a term description at the bottom of a post. The term is part of a custom taxonomy.

    For instance, a post is assigned to the term Apples. In single.php, I’m listing the_content, to be followed by the description of the term this specific post is assigned to.

    I’m using

    <?php echo term_description( '', get_query_var( 'taxonomy' ) ); ?>

    for taxonomy.php – but this obviously won’t work for single.php.

    What snippet could I use to:

    Display the term_description for term to which this post is assigned? I know how to get the term list with

    <?php echo get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'taxonomy-name', '', ', ', '' ); ?>

    but I’m drawing a blank for the description.

    Thanks in advance for your help

    John

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  • Thread Starter Anonymous User 303747

    (@anonymized-303747)

    Thought I’d give this one a bump. Anyone?

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    Use this

    $taxonomy='your_taxonomy_goes_here';
$terms=get_the_terms($post->ID,$taxonomy);
echo "<pre>"; print_r($terms); echo "</pre>";

    Thread Starter Anonymous User 303747

    (@anonymized-303747)

    Michael – that’s getting me somewhere, but not where I need to be yet.

    Here’s what it prints:

    `Array
    (
    [774] => stdClass Object
    (
    [term_id] => 774
    [name] => The Name
    [slug] => the-name
    [term_group] => 0
    [term_taxonomy_id] => 826
    [taxonomy] => the taxonomy
    [description] => the description the description the description etc
    [parent] => 0
    [count] => 16
    [object_id] => 1461
    )

    )
    ‘

    We’re probably extremely close, I just don’t know how to adjust the above to just print the term description.

    $terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID , 'taxonomy-name_here' );
echo $terms->description;
    Thread Starter Anonymous User 303747

    (@anonymized-303747)

    t31os_ – that does nothing for me. No result.

    Just to make sure we’re all on the same page – I am trying to print a term description at the top or bottom of single.php, not on taxonomy pages.

    $terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID , 'taxonomy_Name' );
if($terms) {
	foreach( $terms as $term ) {
		echo $term->description.'<br />';
	}
}

    Just need to loop over results… ??

    Thread Starter Anonymous User 303747

    (@anonymized-303747)

    Bingo – spelling of description threw me for a loop in the last snippet, but works like a champ now.

    For anyone else – 

    <?php $terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID , 'taxonomy-name' );
if($terms) {
	foreach( $terms as $term ) {
		echo $term->description.'<br />';
	}
}
?>

    Thanks much, Michael and t31os_!

    I have the following code:

    <?php $terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID , 'people' );
	if($terms) {
		foreach( $terms as $term ) {
		echo '<div class="authorbio">'.$term->description.'<br /></div>';
	}
}
?>

    I only have descriptions on certain custom tags. I don’t want to display the “authorbio” divs when the description is missing. How do I do it?

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