Yes, that makes more sense. If I’m understanding correctly then the changes to the query that I posted should be working. Maybe it has something to do with using the global $wp_query variable, you shouldn’t be doing that.
also, just to be sure, did you change your taxonomy here to the slug for your custom taxonomy and $term_id to the term ID that you want to return?
<?php
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$args = array (
'post_type' => 'exercise-database',
'tax_query' => array(
array(
'taxonomy' => 'your taxonomy here',
'terms' => array($term_id),
'operator' => 'IN'
)
),
'pagination' => true,
'paged' => $paged,
'order' => 'DESC',
);
$my_query = new WP_Query( $args );
if ($mny_query->have_posts()) {
while ($wp_query->have_posts()) {
$wp_query->the_post();
?><h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2><?php
} // end while
wp_reset_postdata();
} // end if
