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For a custom post type with multiple taxonomies, is it possible to set the post terms without explicitly knowing which taxonomy the term falls under?

I have an array of term ids which may contain a mix of terms from any one of three taxonomies. The only function I've found to add terms to a cpt is wp_set_post_terms which requires the taxonomy slug.

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It's a bit confusing, the documentation for wp_set_post_terms() claims that the $taxonomy argument is "Optional", but in looking at the source it appears that all this means is that its default value is post_tag if you omit the argument. If you attempt to pass null or an empty string, it won't work.

So I think the solution then would be to first get the taxonomies of the given IDs, and then set the terms for each taxonomy separately.

$post_id  = 123; // For example.
$term_ids = [ 1, 2, 3 ]; // For example.

$terms = [];

foreach ( $term_ids as $term_id ) {
    $term = get_term( $term_id );

    $terms[$term->taxonomy][] = $term_id;
}

foreach ( $terms as $taxonomy => $term_ids ) {
    wp_set_post_terms( $post_id, $term_ids, $taxonomy );
}
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  • Thanks, that's a bit more succinct than my solution. Feb 20, 2019 at 10:23
  • I would set the append parameter of wp_set_post_terms to true to avoid overwriting terms with same taxonomies
    – RafaSashi
    Jun 27 at 4:46

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