How to list posts by term (custom taxonomy)

Question

I created a custom post type (portfolio), with custom taxonomy (portfolio-category). I created a template, this template lists all "portfolio" posts.

        <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
        <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
        <?php the_content(); ?>
        <?php endwhile; ?>
        <?php $mypost = array( 'post_type' => 'portfolio', );
        $loop = new WP_Query( $mypost ); ?>
        <div class="portfolio-arrows" id="p-arrow-left" data-scroll-by="-300"></div>
        <div class="portfolio-arrows" id="p-arrow-right" data-scroll-by="300"></div>
        <div class="inner">
            <ul id="portfolio-container">
                <?php while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();?>
                <li  id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
                    <div class="portfolio-content">
                        <h2 class="portfolio-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
                        <span class="portfolio-date"><?php the_date(); ?></span>
                        <?php the_content(); ?>
                    </div>
                    <?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { ?>
                    <div class="featured-p-image">
                        <?php the_post_thumbnail( 'portfolio-size' ); ?>
                        <div class="featured-p-image-hover">
                        <?php
                            $fullimage_src = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ), "full" );
                            echo'<a href="'.$fullimage_src[0].'" class="fancybox"></a>';  
                        ?>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                    <?php } ?>
                </li>
                <?php endwhile;  ?>
            </ul>
        </div>

As you can see <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?> in this page template the user can add content above the wp_query.

I created a file, taxonomy-portfolio-category.php with same content. With this I would like to list posts by term, but I would like to show the "user managed" content above the query too. (The result is: I get same page, but instead of the unique content (user managed) I see the list by the term.)

How can I do that? Or what's the best way for that?

Answer 1

You can use the term description with echo term_description() or create a new custom post type for these descriptions and associate each post in that post type with one or more terms.

The term description is probably faster, but the custom post type can be searched, and you can add metaboxes and everything else like in other posts.