List Search Results Separated by Custom Taxonomy Term

Anonymous

#253466

Hi, I’m trying to display all custom posts separated by custom taxonomy term.
Format:
<h2>Term 1</h2>
{All posts from taxonomy term 1}

<h2>Term 2</h2>
{All posts from taxonomy term 2}

Can you tell me how to incorporate this into the loop in results.php?
I saw some documentation saying add $args[‘search_filter_id’] = 123 but not sure.
Thank you! (my loop below)

$patient_story_types = get_terms('patient_story_type');
		foreach($patient_story_types as $patient_story_type) :
		  wp_reset_query();
		  $patient_story_args = array(
		  	'post_type' => 'patient_story',
		  	'posts_per_page' => -1,
		  	'tax_query' => array(
		      array(
		      	'taxonomy' => 'patient_story_type',
		        'field' => 'slug',
		        'terms' => $patient_story_type->slug,
		      ),
					array(
		        'taxonomy' => 'patient_story_type',
		        'terms' => array('featured'),
		        'field' => 'slug',
		        'operator' => 'NOT IN',
					),
		    ),
		  );
		  $custom_query = new WP_Query($patient_story_args);
		  if($custom_query->have_posts()) : ?>
		  	
		  	<h3 class="patient-story-type"><?php echo $patient_story_type->name; ?></h3>
		  	<div class="patient-stories">
			  	<?php while($custom_query->have_posts()) : $custom_query->the_post(); ?>
				
						<div class="patient-story">
							<div class="card">
								<?php if(has_post_thumbnail()) { ?>
									<a>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('large', array('class'=>'img-responsive aligncenter', 'alt'=>get_the_title(), 'title'=>get_the_title())); ?></a>
								<?php } ?>
								<div class="card-body">
									<?php $patient_story_type_terms = get_the_terms($post->ID, 'patient_story_type'); ?>
									<h4<?php if($patient_story_type_terms) { echo ' class="has-terms"'; } ?>><a>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4>
									
									<?php if($patient_story_type_terms) {
													
											echo "<ul class='list-inline patient-story-type-terms'>";
												foreach($patient_story_type_terms as $patient_story_type_term) {
													echo "<li>". $patient_story_type_term->name ."</li>";
												}
											echo "</ul>";
									} ?>
									<p><?php pva_custom_excerpt(array('length' => 25, 'suffix' => '&hellip;', 'link_text' => '')); ?></p>
									<p><a>">Read Full Story</a></p>
								</div><!-- .card-body -->							
							</div><!-- .card -->
						</div><!-- .patient-story -->
							
					<?php endwhile; ?>
		  	</div><!-- .patient-stories -->
		
			<?php endif;
		endforeach; ?>

Ross Moderator

#253555

Hi Jerry

You are correct, so what you would probably want to do is add it to the query args in here:

$patient_story_args = array(
	'post_type' => 'patient_story',
	'posts_per_page' => -1,
	'tax_query' => array(
		array(
			'taxonomy' => 'patient_story_type',
			'field' => 'slug',
			'terms' => $patient_story_type->slug,
		),
		array(
			'taxonomy' => 'patient_story_type',
			'terms' => array('featured'),
			'field' => 'slug',
			'operator' => 'NOT IN',
		),
	),
);

So it would become:

$patient_story_args = array(
	'post_type' => 'patient_story',
	'posts_per_page' => -1,
	'tax_query' => array(
		array(
			'taxonomy' => 'patient_story_type',
			'field' => 'slug',
			'terms' => $patient_story_type->slug,
		),
		array(
			'taxonomy' => 'patient_story_type',
			'terms' => array('featured'),
			'field' => 'slug',
			'operator' => 'NOT IN',
		),
	),
	'search_filter_id' => '123456',
);

Where 123456 is the ID of your search form.

I might add though, if you have a lot of posts (over a few hundred), then this approach might start to become slow, because you are running multiple WP_Query – there might be a better (but probably much more complicated) way of doing it in that case.

Best

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