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On a custom post type archive I'm trying to add the custom taxonomy terms slug as a css class to the tag. I've managed to get it to output the page->ID but struggling to get the $term->slug to work. Feel like I'm missing something really simple. Here's the full code, thanks for any help:

     <?php

$parent_pages = get_pages( array( 'parent' => 0, 'post_type'=> 'archive', 'orderby' => 'menu_order' , 'order' => 'ASC', 'sort_column' => 'menu_order' ) );
foreach ( $parent_pages as $parent_page ) {


echo '<h1 class="page-heading" id="';
echo $parent_page->post_name;
echo '">';

echo $parent_page->post_title;
echo '</h1>';
 echo '<div class="wrapper grid4">';

$all_pages = get_pages(array( 'post_type'=> 'archive',  'orderby' => 'menu_order' , 'order' => 'ASC', 'sort_column' => 'menu_order' ) );
$child_pages = get_page_children($parent_page->ID, $all_pages );
foreach ( $child_pages as $child_page ) {
       $terms = get_the_terms( $child_page->ID, 'media' );
   var_dump($terms);
  echo '<article class="post col ' . $terms->slug .'">';

 echo '<a class="fancybox" data-fancybox-type="iframe" href="http://www.iofpi.co.uk/civicworks.net/wp-content/plugins/pdfjs-viewer-shortcode/web/viewer.php?file=http://www.iofpi.co.uk/civicworks.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Citizen_Manchester.pdf" title="' . the_title_attribute('echo=0') . '" >';

  echo get_the_post_thumbnail( $child_page->ID, 'medium');

  echo '</a>';


    echo '<h1>';
  echo $child_page->post_title;
  echo '</h1>';
  echo '</article>';
}
     echo '</div>';
  }
  ?>
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  • What is the value of $term->slug? $term isn't being set anywhere, and it needs to be for each iteration of the $child_pages loop
    – anu
    Jun 25, 2014 at 12:43
  • Thanks, any clue as to how I might do that? Thanks
    – leanda
    Jun 25, 2014 at 12:44
  • I've set the $term and can see that's returned if I do var_dump, but it's still not adding the term to the class. Ant ideas? I've updated the code above. Thanks.
    – leanda
    Jun 25, 2014 at 15:35

1 Answer 1

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Your code shows how it fetches posts, but not, how it fetches the $term. On a proper development environment (WP_DEBUG is set to TRUE) this code should trigger a notice, that $term is unknown at this point.

However, I suggest to use the template function post_class() to display relevant information of the post as HTML classes. (Note how setup_postdata() and wp_reset_postdata() are used.)

<?php

global $post;
foreach ( $child_pages as $post ) {
    setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
    <article <?php post_class();?>>
        <a class="fancybox" data-fancybox-type="iframe" href="" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" >
            <?php the_post_thumbnail( 'medium' ); ?>
        </a>
        <h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
    </article>
    <?php
}
wp_reset_postdata();

For what I know, post_class() prints classes about the terms of the default taxonomies category, post_tag and post_format. I'm not sure, if it does so for custom taxonomies. Have a look at this first!

If not, this function (in your functions.php) will bring you the terms as HTML classes to the post_class() output:

/**
 * adds terms of custom taxonomies to a set of
 * html classes
 *
 * @wp_hook post_class
 * @param array $classes
 * @param string $class
 * @param int $post_ID
 * @return array
 */
function wpse_151731_add_custom_tax_terms( $classes = array(), $class = '', $post_ID = 0 ) {

    $terms = wp_get_post_terms( $post_ID, array( 'your_taxonomy_slug' ) );
    if ( empty( $terms ) )
        return $classes;

    foreach ( $terms as $t ) {
        $classes[] = $t->taxonomy . '-' . $t->slug;
    }

    return $classes;
}
add_filter( 'post_class', 'wpse_151731_add_custom_tax_terms', 10, 3 );
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  • Thanks, I've managed to retrieve the terms and can see they are being returned using var_dump, but can't get them to output. I'm using this which seems a bit simpler : ` foreach ( $child_pages as $child_page ) { $terms = get_the_terms( $child_page->ID, 'media' ); var_dump($terms); echo '<article class="post col ' . $terms->slug .'">';` I think I'm not using the echo correctly, but can't see how. Thanks
    – leanda
    Jun 25, 2014 at 15:31
  • First of all, please use the code-tags (```) to mark your code in comments. (See »help«). Then: did you read my suggestion carefully? There's a reason to use the proper template functions. They separate logic from your HTML and even make your theme more compatible with plugins. You really should think about the usage of post_class().
    – David
    Jun 25, 2014 at 15:55

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