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Display custom post types within a specific category

Plugins being used: Advanced Custom Fields

I have a custom post type named Tournaments. I assign categories based on the status of the Tournament: upcoming-tournament or finished-tournament.

I have a page made for each team in the Volleyball club, i.e. Team Blue. I created a Relationship Custom Field named "tournaments" that is available to each team page.

I'd like to display the 4 most recent Tournaments that are categorized as upcoming-tournament. I'd then like to display the 4 most recent Tournaments that are categorized as finished-tournament.

I've included the start of my code below. What I need help with is filling in the areas that are commented out. Basically, I need help writing the loop!



<!-- this will grab all the tournaments that the team is participating in -->

<?php $tournaments = get_field( 'tournament_selection' );



if( $tournaments ) { ?>

	

	<h3>Upcoming Tournaments</h3>

	

	<?php foreach( $tournaments as $tournament ) {



		// if $tournament has taxonomy "upcoming-tournament"...



	} ?>





	

	<h3>Finished Tournaments</h3>

	

	<?php foreach( $tournaments as $tournament ) {

	

		// if $tournament has taxonomy "finished-tournament"...

	

	} ?>

	

<?php } ?>

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01/25/13
4:47pm

Francisco Javier Carazo Gil says:
You can use has_term: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/has_term

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01/25/13
4:50pm
Dylan Kuhn says:
I think even without loading the post object, this may work:
```
if ( has_term( 'your-taxonomy', 'finished-tournament', $tournament ) ) {

  // do something

}
```
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01/25/13
4:54pm

John Cotton says:

I think you probably need to use wp_get_object_terms.

I assuming that your $tournaments is an array of custom post ids? If so then



<?php

if( $tournaments ) {

	$upcoming = '';

	$finished = '';



	foreach( $tournaments as $tournament ) {

		// You could get more info back by changing the fields param, but that would make the in_array compare different...

		$terms = wp_get_object_terms( $tournament, array('orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC', 'fields' => 'slug') );

		

		if( in_array( 'upcoming-tournament', $terms ) ) {

			$upcoming .= 'Upcoming!' // edit to whatever it is you want to say

		}



		if( in_array( 'finished-tournament', $terms ) ) {

			$upcoming .= 'Finished!' // edit to whatever it is you want to say

		}

	}

?>



	<h3>Upcoming Tournaments</h3>

	<?php echo $upcoming; ?>

	

	<h3>Finished Tournaments</h3>

	<?php echo $finished; ?>

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01/25/13
4:48pm

Francisco Javier Carazo Gil says:
Make the loop and change the foreach for the loop.

Then, with the post object loaded, you can do directly it: if( has_term( 'your-taxonomy', 'finished-tournament' ) ) {
// do something
}

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01/25/13
5:19pm

Dave Schmidt says:

Hi John,

I'm getting an error on the page. http://vitalvolleyball.com/teams/test/

Your syntax looks fine though. Any ideas? Here's the code I'm adding:



<?php



$tournaments = get_field( 'tournament_selection' );



if( $tournaments ) {



	$upcoming = '';



	$finished = '';



	foreach( $tournaments as $tournament ) {



		// You could get more info back by changing the fields param, but that would make the in_array compare different...



		$terms = wp_get_object_terms( $tournament, array('orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC', 'fields' => 'slug') );



		



		if( in_array( 'upcoming-tournament', $terms ) ) {



			$upcoming .= 'Upcoming!' // edit to whatever it is you want to say



		}







		if( in_array( 'finished-tournament', $terms ) ) {



			$finished .= 'Finished!' // edit to whatever it is you want to say



		}



	}



?>







	<h3>Upcoming Tournaments</h3>



	<?php echo $upcoming; ?>



	



	<h3>Finished Tournaments</h3>



	<?php echo $finished; ?>

Any thoughts?

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01/25/13
5:21pm

John Cotton says:
It's missing a } before the last ?><h3>Upcoming Tournaments</h3>

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01/25/13
5:25pm

John Cotton says:

Actually, it should be like this in case there are no tournaments:







<?php







$tournaments = get_field( 'tournament_selection' );







if( $tournaments ) {







	$upcoming = '';







	$finished = '';







	foreach( $tournaments as $tournament ) {







		// You could get more info back by changing the fields param, but that would make the in_array compare different...







		$terms = wp_get_object_terms( $tournament, array('orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC', 'fields' => 'slug') );







		







		if( in_array( 'upcoming-tournament', $terms ) ) {







			$upcoming .= 'Upcoming!' // edit to whatever it is you want to say







		}















		if( in_array( 'finished-tournament', $terms ) ) {







			$finished .= 'Finished!' // edit to whatever it is you want to say







		}







	}







?>



	<h3>Upcoming Tournaments</h3>

	<?php echo $upcoming; ?>



	<h3>Finished Tournaments</h3>

	<?php echo $finished; ?>

<?php

}

?>

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01/25/13
5:29pm

Dave Schmidt says:
Hmm, still getting a page error. I deleted everything else in the template and still get the error. Your idea looks promising though!

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01/25/13
5:30pm

Dave Schmidt says:
Any ideas on how to put that all together? Consider me a novice multiple loops kind of guy.

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01/25/13
5:32pm

John Cotton says:
Have you copied my last code?

Can you pastebin your template so that I can see the whole context?

You're just missing a closing bracket somewhere I think

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01/25/13
5:38pm

Dave Schmidt says:
http://pastebin.com/f8tjpF4S

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01/25/13
5:42pm

John Cotton says:

These two lines are missing semi-colons:

                        

$upcoming .= 'Upcoming!'

 

                     

   $finished .= 'Finished!'

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01/25/13
5:45pm

Dave Schmidt says:
Believe it or not they're actually in there. I selected PHP as the syntax on Pastebin and it stripped them out. But in my WP template they're there. Hmmm...

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01/25/13
5:46pm

Dave Schmidt says:
Hang on, I see what you were referring to. Those two calls were missing the semi-colons at the top of the query. Sorry!

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01/25/13
5:50pm

Dave Schmidt says:
John, looks like we're getting closer. The page is spitting out some array() errors. Check it out: http://vitalvolleyball.com/teams/test/

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01/25/13
5:51pm

John Cotton says:

Soory, also, this line needs editing to add the taxonomies:

$terms = wp_get_object_terms( $tournament, array('orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC', 'fields' => 'slug') );

should be

$terms = wp_get_object_terms( $tournament, 'category', array('orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC', 'fields' => 'slug') );

or whatever taxonomy you are using (you can pass an array if it's more than one)

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01/25/13
5:55pm

Dave Schmidt says:
OK, so I don't have a custom taxonomy set up for the custom post type. I'm just using global categories. Any ideas how I set that up in the 'category' section of the $terms?

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01/25/13
5:56pm

John Cotton says:
Any ideas how I set that up in the 'category' section of the $terms?

That's what my code does. Just copy the corrected line in place of the incorrect one.

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01/25/13
6:00pm
Dave Schmidt says:
So if I'm passing in the possible two categories, is this how the array should look like? Because it's giving me an error. I'm really terrible at this stuff, sorry John!
```
$terms = wp_get_object_terms( $tournament, array('upcoming-tournament', 'finished-tournament'), array('orderby' => 'meta_value', 'meta_key' => 'tournament_date', 'order' => 'ASC', 'fields' => 'slug') );
```
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01/25/13
6:05pm

John Cotton says:

The line is just

$terms = wp_get_object_terms( $tournament, 'category', array('orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC', 'fields' => 'slug') );

The middle param is the taxonomy NOT the terms.

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01/25/13
6:11pm

Dave Schmidt says:

OK cool. By the way, I'm going to increase the payout on this John! So stick with me until it's sorted out. :)

The errors disappeared. That's good!

So here's what I want to display for any posts that match the criteria:



<ul>

<li>

	<a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_field('tournament_name', $tournament->ID); ?></a>

	

	<span>

		<?php $date = DateTime::createFromFormat('Ymd', get_field('tournament_date', $tournament->ID));

		echo $date->format('F d, Y'); ?>

	</span>

</li>

</ul>

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01/25/13
6:23pm

John Cotton says:

So here's what I want to display for any posts that match the criteria:

Stick this somewhere near the top (having a function makes the code neater and saves repeating...)

function format_tournament( $id ) {

	$date = DateTime::createFromFormat( 'Ymd', get_field('tournament_date', $id) );



	return sprintf( '<li><a href="%s">%s</a><span>%s</span></li>', get_permalink($id), get_field('tournament_name', $id), $date->format('F d, Y') );



}

And mod the loop as follows:



        foreach( $tournaments as $tournament ) {

 

                $terms = wp_get_object_terms( $tournament, array('orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC', 'fields' => 'slug') );

 

                if( in_array( 'upcoming-tournament', $terms ) ) {

                         $upcoming .= format_tournament( $tournament->ID );

                 }

 

 

                if( in_array( 'finished-tournament', $terms ) ) {

                         $finished .= format_tournament( $tournament->ID );

                }

        }

Finally, change the output to



	<h3>Upcoming Tournaments</h3>

	<ul><?php echo $upcoming; ?></ul>





	<h3>Finished Tournaments</h3>

	<ul><?php echo $finished; ?></ul>

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01/25/13
6:43pm

Dave Schmidt says:

OK, code looks great! Unfortunately nothing is displaying on the page. I verified that there are Tournaments categorized as both "upcoming-tournament" and "finished-tournament." Here is the code I have in the template. Sorry to be a pain, but I feel we're so close!



<?php



$tournaments = get_field( 'tournament_selection' );





function format_tournament( $id ) {

	$date = DateTime::createFromFormat( 'Ymd', get_field('tournament_date', $id) );

	return sprintf( '<li><a href="%s">%s</a><span>%s</span></li>', get_permalink($id), get_field('tournament_name', $id), $date->format('F d, Y') );

}





if( $tournaments ) {



	$upcoming = '';

	$finished = '';





foreach( $tournaments as $tournament ) {



	$terms = wp_get_object_terms( $tournament, 'category', array('orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC', 'fields' => 'slug') );

	

	if( in_array( 'upcoming-tournament', $terms ) ) {

		$upcoming .= format_tournament( $tournament->ID );

	}

	

	if( in_array( 'finished-tournament', $terms ) ) {

		$finished .= format_tournament( $tournament->ID );

	}

}        



?>





<h3>Upcoming Tournaments</h3>

<ul><?php echo $upcoming; ?></ul>



<h3>Finished Tournaments</h3>

<ul><?php echo $finished; ?></ul>





<?php



}



?>

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01/25/13
6:51pm

John Cotton says:

This

format_tournament( $tournament->ID );

should be

format_tournament( $tournament );

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01/25/13
7:06pm

Dave Schmidt says:
I still don't get anything to display. :(

Here's a pastebin: http://pastebin.com/ivuprSrr

And if you take a look at the test page I did a variable dump. So I can tell that the tournaments are being pulled in correctly.

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01/25/13
7:16pm

John Cotton says:

OK my mistake - try this:

foreach( $tournaments as $tournament ) {

 print_r( $tournament->ID );

        $terms = wp_get_object_terms( $tournament->ID, 'category', array('orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC', 'fields' => 'slug') );

       

        if( in_array( 'upcoming-tournament', $terms ) ) {

                $upcoming .= format_tournament( $tournament->ID );

        }

       

        if( in_array( 'finished-tournament', $terms ) ) {

                $finished .= format_tournament( $tournament->ID );

        }

}

If that works, then the print_r line can be removed. If not, it might tell us something.

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01/25/13
7:30pm

Dave Schmidt says:
So nothing displays, but the print_r does display the 3 ID's of the tournaments that are supposed to be visible. So at least it can pull in the ID's.

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01/25/13
7:36pm

John Cotton says:
So just so we know completely what's going on try

print_r( $tournament->ID ); echo '<br/>';
$terms = wp_get_object_terms( $tournament->ID, 'category', array('orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC', 'fields' => 'slug') );
print_r( $terms ); echo '<br/>';

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01/25/13
7:37pm

Dave Schmidt says:
John, you have an honest face. Would it help if I messaged you some FTP creds?

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01/25/13
7:38pm

Dave Schmidt says:
Done. Nothing is showing up in the array.

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01/25/13
7:56pm

John Cotton says:
John, you have an honest face. Would it help if I messaged you some FTP creds?

:) It would probably be quicker...

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