WP_Query using Taxonomy Field For categories

• aaron4osu

• April 27, 2022 at 6:30 pm

I’m trying to create a simple post query where the categories are an array. The return type is Term ID

Here is my code so far…

$topics = get_field('blog_post_categories');
if ($topics) {
  if (!is_array($topics)) {
    $topics = array($topics);
}

$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'post',
    'posts_per_page' => -1,
    'order' => 'DESC',
    'cats' => $topics
    
);

$query = new WP_Query( $args ); 

any help would be greatly appreciated

• John Huebner

• April 28, 2022 at 1:27 pm

There is no “cats” argument for WP_Query().

https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/#category-parameters

try “cat” with a comma separated string of category IDs or “category__in” with an array.