Reply To: Get taxonomy name from 'Taxonomy' field and insert into custom loop as category?

• tombyrom

• August 22, 2016 at 1:20 am

Ok I just got it working using this!

<?php
                
                $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
                $term_id = get_field('exercise_category') ;
                  $args = array (
                    'post_type'	=> 'exercise-database',
                    'tax_query'  =>  array(
                      array(
                        'taxonomy' => 'exercise-categories',
                        'terms' => array($term_id),
                        'operator' => 'IN'
                      )
                    ),
                    'pagination' => true,
                    'paged' => $paged,
                    'order' => 'DESC',
                  );
            ?>

                                
            <?php global $wp_query; $wp_query = new WP_Query( $args ); ?>

                    <?php if ($wp_query->have_posts()) : while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>

Looks like I needed to get the field and return as term_id. Im glad that works!
Could you let me know why you advise not to use ‘global $wp_query’. I think the reason I am using that is something to do with the CPT, but I am all ears…

Thanks John