Display 3 recent posts from one taxonomy

Question

I have created a Custom Post Type - "magazine_entry" and have registered the taxonomy "division". I have then created several divisions such as, "international", "tokyo", "kansai", etc...

I am trying to display the 3 most recent posts from a single taxonomy of the custom post type.

For example, have

(i will handle the css and html later)

International:
post 1      post 2     post 3    

Tokyo:
post 1      post 2     post 3

etc...

I can get all posts from the custom post type to show up, but I don't know how to get the posts from just one of the taxonomies.

Answer 1

You should use Taxonomy Parameters available in WP_Query. For example, to get the three recents magazine_entry posts having the international term slug, you can use:

$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'magazine_entry',
    'posts_per_page' => 3
    'tax_query' => array(
        array(
            'taxonomy' => 'division',
            'field' => 'slug',
            'terms' => 'international'
        )
    )
);
$query = new WP_Query( $args );