Reply To: Display only "Featured" custom posttypes on taxonomy page

• John Huebner

• October 5, 2018 at 5:33 am

if all you want to show on this page is the featured posts and the rest of the posts in the term will never be shown then instead of doing a custom query on the page you need to use a pre_get_posts filter and alter the query that WP is already doing.

add_action('pre_get_posts', 'your_function_name_here');
function your_function_name_here($query) {
  if (is_admin() || !$query->is_main_query()) {
    return;
  }
  if ($query->is_tax('your-taxonomy-here')) {
    $query->set('meta_key', 'uitgelicht_bij_land');
    $query->set('meta_value', '1'); 
    $query->set('posts_per_page', 3);
  }
}

If on the other hand you are showing other posts as well then you do need to do a custom query, but you need to add a tax_query. You can get the current taxonomy like

$queried_object = get_queried_object();
$taxonomy = $queried_object->taxonomy;
$term_id = $queried_object->term_id;

then you can use these values in the tax query

'tax_query' => array(
  array(
    'taxonomy' => $taxonomy,
    'terms' => array($term_id)
  )
)