[Resolved] Displaying taxonomy term on front end

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[staceyz]

Hello - I'm trying to display a taxonomy term on the front end via my functions.php

I'm trying to find out the equivalent of this code which defines the custom field (business name)

$biz = types_render_field("business-name");

Trying to do the same for getting the taxonomy. The tax slug I'm trying to pull is va-cat and I'm using this, but no luck - can you tell me the correct command for this?

$vcat = types_render_termmeta("va-cat");

Thanks!

[Jamal]

Hello and thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

The following will only work on a term archive page, or in a taxonomy view inside the loop. Because, that way, it will pick the term from a global variable:

$vcat = types_render_termmeta("va-cat");

Otherwise, you will have to pass the term_id to the function:

$vcat = types_render_termmeta( "va-cat", array( 'term_id' => $term_id ) );

Check the example codes in this documentation https://toolset.com/documentation/customizing-sites-using-php/functions/

I hope this helps. Otherwise, please provide more details about your code and where it is being used.

[staceyz]

Thanks for your help. I can't get it to work.

This code is being placed in my functions.php to replace the default data that is populated from a plugin. The fields work fine, but i can't get the category to work. It's not returning anything. I can send you the link to the dev site privately if you'd like to see it.

function cspml_custom_item_description($default_content, $post_id){

$biz = types_render_field("business-name");
$city = types_render_field("city-state");
$vcat = types_render_termmeta( "va-cat", array( 'term_id' => $term_id ) );

return '<h5 class="biz-name" style="margin-bottom: 0">'.$biz.'</h5><div class="city">'.$city.'</div><div style="vcat'.$vcat.'">'.$vcat.'</div>'

;

}
add_filter('cspml_item_description', 'cspml_custom_item_description', 10, 2);

[Jamal]

As you can see, the hook will pass to arguments to your function, $default_content and $post_id

function cspml_custom_item_description($default_content, $post_id){

You will have to get the $term_id from the $post_id, or probably multiple $term_ids if the post is assigned multiple terms. You will use the wp_get_post_terms:

$term_ids = wp_get_post_terms( $post->ID, 'my_taxonomy', array( 'fields' => 'ids' ) );

- https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_get_post_terms/

It will return an array of terms assigned to the post. You can pull the first one with $term_ids[0], or you can go through all of them with foreach
Then you can use types_render_termmeta.

Please note, that this is custom code, and is out of the scope of our support forum. If you are not comfortable with PHP coding, consider hiring a developer or one of our contractors https://toolset.com/contractors/