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I have taken a few stabs at this and have hit a road block. I will try to be as descriptive as possible...

  1. I have a Custom Post Type: Bars
  2. I have a Custom Taxonomy associated with Bars called: Location
  3. Location has several cities associated with it. e.g. Dallas, Atlanta, Philadelphia, etc.

I have a created a shortcode that currently works with the exception that I cannot figure out how to grab the "terms" associated with "location" and display them in the Recent Post list on the front-end. Only the Thumbnail, Title, and Date are displaying.

Currently I am using wp_get_recent_posts but after some reading, should I be using that at all? Or should I be using WP_Query?

Here is my code:

function recent_cpt_list_display( $atts ) {
  $atts = shortcode_atts( array(
    'cpt_type' => 'bars',
    'show_posts' => 5,
    'cpt_cat' => 'location',
  ), $atts, 'cpt-recent-posts' );

  global $post;

  $cpt_type = $atts['cpt_type'];
  $show_posts = $atts['show_posts'];
  $cpt_cat = $atts['cpt_cat'];

  $cpt_posts = wp_get_recent_posts( array(
    'post_type' => $cpt_type,
    'orderby' => 'date',
    'order' => 'ASC',
    'numberposts' => $show_posts
  ));

  if ( ! empty( $cpt_posts ) && ! is_wp_error( $cpt_posts ) ) {
    $output = '<ul class="cpt-recent-posts">';

    foreach( $cpt_posts as $cpt_post ){
        $output .= '<li>';
        $output .= '<div class="cpt-recent-posts-thumb">' . get_the_post_thumbnail( $cpt_post['ID'], 'thumbnail' ) . '</div>';
        $output .= '<div class="cpt-recent-meta">';
        $output .= '<a href="' . get_permalink( $cpt_post["ID"] ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( $cpt_post["post_title"] ) . '" >' . $cpt_post["post_title"].'</a>';
        $output .= '<div class="cpt-meta">' . NEED TO OUTPUT LOCATION HERE . '</div>';
        $output .= '<div class="cpt-post-date">' . get_the_time( get_option( 'date_format' ), $post->ID ) . '</div>';
        $output .= '</div></li>';
      }
      $output .= '<ul>';
     }
  return $output;
}
add_shortcode( 'cpt-recent-posts', 'recent_cpt_list_display' );

Any insight as to do this better, I am all ears as I am still learning. I am trying to rely less on using plugins for everything and really want to code as much as possible.

Thanks in advance.

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Use get_the_terms to fetch terms for a specific post:

$terms = get_the_terms( $cpt_post['ID'], 'location' );

if ( $terms && ! is_wp_error( $terms ) ){
    $output .= '<div class="cpt-meta">';
    foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
        $output .= $term->name . ' ';
    }
    $output .= '</div>';
}
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  • How would I output that in the order within the existing foreach loop? – Jason Ryan Jul 1 '17 at 15:47
  • The above code would basically replace the whole line where you have NEED TO OUTPUT LOCATION HERE right now, so it would be inside your existing foreach loop. – Milo Jul 1 '17 at 19:56
  • unfortunately I had tried something like that previously but it only dumps out the "location" of the post the shortcode was placed on, not the location of each "Recent Post". – Jason Ryan Jul 2 '17 at 0:24
  • ah, sorry, see edit above. you were likely not passing the correct post ID. $post->ID refers to the post that contains the shortcode, you need to pass $cpt_post['ID'], which is the ID of each post in your foreach loop. – Milo Jul 2 '17 at 0:28
  • thank you, this definitely works. However, my other question... would using WP_Query and passing $args be a better solution or is this fine? It seems like a lot of people have different methods of approaching something like this, and with me just starting out learning, I am trying to find out what is "best practice". Thanks again. – Jason Ryan Jul 2 '17 at 0:34

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