Query Results not being displayed please help

Question

$args = array(

'post_type' => 'shows',

'operator' => 'AND',

'tax_query' => array(

             array(
                  'taxonomy' => 'location',
                  'field' => 'slug',
                  'term' => 'california',
                  ),  

             array(    
                  'taxonomy' => 'genre',
                  'field' => 'slug',
                  'term' => 'comedy',   
                  )
    )
);

$my_query = new WP_Query();
$my_query->query($args);

while ( $my_query->have_posts() ) : $my_query->the_post();

echo '<li>';
the_title();
echo '</li>';

endwhile;

wp_reset_postdata();

my taxonomy:

register_taxonomy('location',array (
  0 => 'shows',
),array( 'hierarchical' => true, 'label' => 'location','show_ui' => true,'query_var' => true,'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'location'),'singular_label' => 'location') );

register_taxonomy('genre',array (
  0 => 'shows',
),array( 'hierarchical' => true, 'label' => 'genre','show_ui' => true,'query_var' => true,'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'genre'),'singular_label' => 'genre') );

my objective is to display the posts with terms ex. california and comedy, i tried to do the relation but unfortunately no results are displayed

Answer 1

In your loop you only call the title using the_title if you want to display the terms of the custom taxonomies you need to call them and the easiest way would be to use get_the_term_list for each taxonomy :

while ( $my_query->have_posts() ) : $my_query->the_post();

echo '<li>';
the_title();
echo get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'location', 'Location: ', ' ', '' );
echo <br/>
echo get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'genre', 'Genre: ', ' ', '' );
echo '</li>';

endwhile;