show term description instead of list terms of custom taxonomy

Question

For a custom post type (review) I have enabled a few custom taxonomies. One of them is author rating and for that I have added images to the description field of the terms in the taxonomy (1 star to 5 stars).

Now I am wondering how to show that description instead of the term itself on the single-review.php?

I am already using the function to allow XHTML in category descriptions as per Justin Tadlock's function described on his website

Answer 1

If i understand correctly what you are trying to achieve then you can use get_the_terms function to get the rating terms object and from that echo out the description.

replace:

<?php echo get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'rating', __('Author Rating: ', 'appz'), ', ', '' ); // HERE I WANT THE DESCRIPTION (I.E. THE IMAGE THAT I USED AS THE DESCRIPTION INSTEAD OF THE TERM) ?>

with:

<?php 
    echo '<span class="rating-author">'.__('Author Rating: ', 'appz').'</span>';

    $reating_terms = get_the_terms ($post->id, 'rating');
    foreach ($reating_terms as $term){
        echo $term->description;
    }
    ?>