In WordPress, terms are itens set to a taxonomy, i.e. when you create new categories or tags you create new terms.

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Creating a function that receives the taxonomy terms that have been changed in a custom post type

Ive been looking into actions and hooks etc... from wordpress, but cant seem to do a very simple thing. I just want to execute a function whenever a post is updated, and within the function I want the ...
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How to Get All Taxonomies AND All Terms For Each Taxonomy With Post Count Zero

Is there an easy way of obtaining every registered taxonomy and for each registered taxonomy, get all the terms for that taxonomy, and for each term, get the post count, without actually fetching all ...
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Check if term is in a taxonomy?

Is there a function that does something like: is_in_taxonomy($term, $taxonomy) Where it returns true if $taxonomy has that $term. ???? Thanks!
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What is the difference between terms and tags?

I am working on a problem to get the most recently used tags within the last 30 days. My current thought process is not working, so I am trying to come up with an alternative method. I came across ...
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Are Categories, Tags and Custom Taxonomies any different in regards to SEO?

Simple question, really. I know pretty much nothing about SEO, and i'm trying to define a good structure for this clients online magazine. I already know i'll be using a few custom taxonomies along ...
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List Terms in Category

I want to list all terms of a specific taxonomy used in a category. Like I have a taxonomy called 'Manufacturer' and a category 'Shoes'. Each post in this category has a term like 'Nike', 'Adidas' or ...
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Handling duplicates with wp_insert_term()

I'm using wp_insert_term which works quite well Now I want some error handler for when using the same name. $term_id = wp_insert_term( $term, 'wpsc_product_category', $args ); if($term_id) {//my ...
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Add a term to an attachment submitted from front end

I have a front end post form where users can upload a file with their post that I save as an attachment using media_handle_sideload(). I need a way to add a term to that attachment so I can show a ...
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Strict tag list - user should choose only existing tags for posts

While selecting tags for the posts the user is able to create new tags on fly. For example we have the tag 'animal' but the user misstpye it as 'aminal' - and Wordpress creates it. In our blog the ...
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What hooks/filters are there to alter selected terms on post save?

Very simple, where would I hook/filter to alter the users selection of terms when they save a post (Update or Add)? I need to hook in all instances; such as when saving a post via AJAX, saving when ...
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If on term-page -> get the current term?

I'm trying to write a kind of "breadcrumb" function in my "functions.php" I'd like to query if I'm on a term-page and if so I want to print the current term I'm in. By "term-page" I mean the ...
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get_term_children doesn't return an array of children terms

I am trying to get the term children and then check if they exist to display them. But I get no IDs in return of get_term_children command. This is the code: $children = ...
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Changing stylesheet depending on custom taxonomy terms

My client would like the background & header colors to switch depending on terms within the custom taxonomy 'Grades'. These terms are kindergarten, first grade, second grade, etc... (all ...
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Is there a filter/action to add content to WP admin metaboxes?

I want to add an instruction into a custom term meta-box. Is there a hook to add this or is it easiest just to use JavaScript?
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How to associate an image with a term taxononmy and publish it on frontpage?

I couldn't find the solution anywhere else, so I believe is a valid question for this website. I think my problem is divided in two parts. I created a custom taxonomy called "Type" and within it, I ...
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WordPress built-in method to extract array of term IDs?

I'm querying a custom taxonomy for a post, hoping to get a list of all terms for that post and taxonomy. get_the_terms($post_id, $taxonomy) works, but gives this ungodly array of term objects that ...
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Getting Term ID from Term Name for WordPress Query

I am trying to get term ids from term name and cannot figure out why this code is not working. $excludes = ''; if($filtering_excludes) { $exclude_terms = explode(", ", $filtering_excludes); ...
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Echo custom taxonomy term name

I would like to echo out the term name from a custom taxonomy 'recipes' but all I get is the word "recipe" when it should say eg "pizza recipe". Is name the right argument here or I am mistaking it ...
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How to determine the depth of a term in a custom taxonomy?

I'm building a <select> dropdown to display a list of terms for a custom hierarchical taxonomy. How do I know the depth of each term? I'd like to add some indentation for child-terms (the more ...
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Filter taxonomy terms using multiple id in the edit-tags.php

I want to use the edit-tags.php search function with multiple term id's. For example, if i type into the searchbox something like this: #1245&6832, it should display these two terms in the results ...
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How to Make a Category Always Selected?

I'm trying to write a function to make certain terms of default category always selected. When the user is writing a new post, the term checkbox should be checked and he shouldn't be able to unckeck ...
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Glossary with Custom Post Type

I´d like to make a glossary. It should looks like: Index-Nav 0-9 | A B C ... M ... X Y Z B BMW M Mercedes ... ALL entries from index-nav (A-Z, O-9) should be visible in a <ul> and should ...
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Displaying terms based on loop posts?

I have a shortcode that shows a loop for a custom post type: while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); // do something endwhile; Some of the posts are in categories ...
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Set attachment tags from attachment's custom field data

I currently have a custom field added to my attachment's form called artist_credit using the hook attachment_fields_to_edit. When a person enters a name into the artist credit field, I want it to (if ...
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Displaying terms by first letter

I run a book review blog and I have multiple pages that lists the reviews by different things (rating, book title, and author) I have custom taxonomy for authors and I basically have my code list all ...
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one term two taxonomy's?

Anybody got any solutions for this... I'm building an app where I have two heirchical custom taxnomies acting as custom categories. So i've got cat1 and cat2 taxonomy. What I want to do is copy a ...
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List taxonomy terms for post as checkboxes

I'm modifying the plugin Wordpress Frontend User for my custom post type(s). What I need to edit is the custom taxonomy terms. In order to do this, I need to list my terms as labels and have ...
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How to list 2 taxonomy terms for a post, based on their hierarchy

I'm using get_the_terms to display 2 terms on a post, associated with the taxonomy "location". The terms are the suburb and the city. The location taxonomy is hierarchical so the suburb is a child of ...
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wp-menu 'automatically add custom taxonomy terms' like it does for pages? [closed]

I've added a new wp_menu to my sidebar on a custom post-type page. The wp_menu displays a list of a custom taxonomies terms. I see that wp_menu has the checkbox to automatically add new top level ...
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terms_description and admin problem

Hey hi, I am using a piece of code, where with help of it I can display the description of the term to my archives page. My idea of doing this is simple, I have MBA website and I have 3 ...
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Custom Taxonomy Term Caching?

I have two Custom Post Types, "event", and "opportunity". They share a custom hierarchal taxonomy, "location". My client had added a handful of terms (United States (parent), then a few States ...
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How to display posts via custom taxonomy terms using checkboxes?

I would like to have a form with checkboxes. Each checkbox would be a term of my taxonomy "cities". The idea is that if a user select any of the checkboxes, it should show all posts that are NOT in ...
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non-hierarchical custom taxonomy using checkboxes on edit-screen -> saving issue

I registered a non-hierarchical custom taxonomy ('property_features'). There is a checkbox for every terms of this tax in a custom meta box on the edit-screen. All terms are displayed and all terms ...
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How to List Parent Term Links for Custom Taxonomy With & Without Children?

I have a Custom Post Type of "projects", that is categorized by a Custom Taxonomy of "industry", which is heirarchical. Projects & sub-projects are assigned to the industries. For Example, the ...
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Ordering taxonomies by rank

I'm using a function (copied and modified a bit from this question ) which displays taxonomies in order by rank with » between parent and child and | between terms, but I get a mistake in the html ...
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get_terms not returning any custom taxonomies

I have a custom post type called project with custom taxonomy called tagportfolio I use this code to generate both: add_action('init', 'project_custom_init'); /*-- Custom Post Init Begin --*/ ...
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Show posts from two or more custom taxonomy terms

I want to show posts which are filed 2 or more custom taxonomy terms. For example, I want to show the posts from custom post type "Classified" and filed under Books and House terms. The code below ...
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sql select for post_title and a term name

I'm having trouble trying to think out this SQL select I need to write; here's the gist: I'm programmatically creating posts by importing an excel file, so I'm in 100% sure of post titles, etc, since ...
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How to get a list of taxonomy terms which are being used only within certain post types?

I have a custom taxonomy called 'locations' which is being shared across a bunch of post types. I want to make a select field dropdown list of my locations (terms) to let users go to the taxonomy term ...
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Rewrite rules for varying nested terms of custom taxonomy

I've searched the net an the only working solution to this seems to be this post by Jeff which does everything except handle nested terms. Does anybody know how to change the rewrite based on the ...
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How to add terms to taxonomy with wp_insert_terms?

I have a huge excel database of locations which I want to add as terms to my current taxonomy. However, i don't know the best way to do this, as inserting manually could take weeks : ( I have ...
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How to display term description in empty terms archive?

I list all terms from a taxonomy, even the empty ones, but I found out that at least in 2010/2011 themes I got a 404-like message, the default seems to only display the term description when at least ...
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List Posts For Terms Of A Custom Taxonomy For Any Post Type

The function is great and i am using this function with these filter to just display selected taxonomy term posts by id, but what result i am getting is like this Child Taxonomy 1 - Child Taxonomy 1 ...
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Exclude posts with taxonomy term from appearing on home page query

I am really confused about this one, I am usually pretty good at working out basic queries but I can't seem to work this one out. Please see below my index.php query. Now it is not your basic query ...
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Query posts from a child taxonomy term id

this is my structure.... State1 CT1-1 - Car_Model Post-CT1-1 (the posts of child) - Car_Model Post-CT1-2 CT2-1 - Car_Model Post-CT2-2 CT3-1 - Car_Model Post-CT3-1 State2 CT1-2 ...
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Count posts for each taxonomy term for each month

Cannot figured it out... I need to count how many posts there are for each taxonomy term form each month.
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Why is my 'list_terms_exclusions' filter function timing out? [closed]

Why is my function timing out? When the issue was first noticed I added wp_defer_term_counting('true') to delay that process but to no avail. /* Filter category from get_categories and ...
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Which post does a taxonomy term belongs to?

I’m having a page which displays all custom taxonomy terms for a particular type which I get from the URL. I use this code to retrieve all the terms: $args = array( 'post_type' => ...
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How to edit/remove a term that's in multiple taxonomies?

Some of the terms on my site appear with the same exact slug, in multiple taxonomies. For example: 'education' appears in both the 'department' taxonomy and the 'topic' taxonomy. Now, I can't seem ...
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Cleaning up a Gravity Forms 'Checkbox' field tied to large taxonomy [closed]

I'm using Gravity forms to allow my users to create posts from the front end, but I'm having an issue making a certain form-function I'd like to have work and display nicely. Essentially, I want my ...