List custom taxonomy as navigation - taxonomy pages with all it's posts?

Question

I have no idea how to do this and really need your help please …

First I created a custom-post-template called "wr_event" - then I added a custom taxonomy (like categories) to this post-template!

register_taxonomy(
    'Type of event',
    'wr_event',
    array(
        'taxonomy' => 'event_type',
        'label' => 'Types',
        'singular_label' => 'Type',
        'hierarchical' => true,
        'rewrite' => true)
);

I did all that in my functions.php file. The "types" I created in my taxonomy in the wp-backend right now are "Lectures", "Workshops", "Festivals".

If I create a post (event) and assign it to a "category" (taxonomy) I get this url localhost.com/lectures/my-post-title and the single-wr_event.php template is used.

This is already a big step towards what I finally want.

What I don't know is how I can now kind of create pages for my taxonomies like it automatically works for posts and categories?

e.g. I said I have this right now: localhost.com/lectures/my-post-title

but when I just enter localhost.com/lectures/ I want all the posts assigned to this taxonomie listed. And I'd like to add a navigation in my header that lists all taxonomies I created just like 'wp_list_categories'.

Any ideas on how to this?

Answer 1

You can create the file taxonomy-event_type.php. That will be used when you use the url /?event_type=lectures or /event_type/lectures.

You can use wp_list_categories by adding 'taxonomy' => 'event_type' to the arguments (see http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories#Display_Terms_in_a_custom_taxonomy)

Answer 2

   function wp_list_tax_terms($tax = 'category',$order,$hide_empty = FALSE){
    $terms = get_terms( $tax, array(
        'orderby'    => $order,
        'hide_empty' => $hide_empty
     ));
     if ( $count > 0 ){
     echo '<ul>';
     foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
       echo '<li><a href="'.$term->name.'">'.$term->name.'</a></li>';   
     }
     echo '</ul>';
  }    
}