Get Posts in a Custom Post Type category

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I have trouble in getting post in a custom post type category. I have code below but it doesnt work well. It still get posts in another category. 

<?php
    $query= null;
    $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
    $args=array(
        'post_type' => get_post_type(),
        'post_status' => 'publish',
        'paged' => $paged,
        'post_type_cat' => 'featured', // get_post_type() will return post_type, I add _cat -> post_type_cat
        //'orderby' => 'rand',
        'posts_per_page' => 1,
        'meta_query' => array(
            array(
                'key' => '_expiration_date',
                'value' => array(0, current_time('timestamp')),
                'compare' => 'BETWEEN'
                )),
            );
    $query = new WP_Query($args);
?>
<?php if ( $query->have_posts() ) : $query->the_post(); ?>
<?php get_template_part( 'template/featured' ); ?>
<?php else : ?>
<?php get_template_part( 'template/nofeatured' ); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>

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  1. As far as I know there is no such parameter as post_type_cat, you want to use either cat or if querying posts in a custom taxonomy you would use a taxonomy query.

    Category query example;

    $query = new WP_Query( 'cat=2,6,17,38' );

    or

    $query = new WP_Query( 'category_name=staff' );

    See the following Codex entry for even more ways to query by category;

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Category_Parameters

    Taxonomy query example; 

    $args = array(
    'post_type' => 'post',
    'tax_query' => array(
        array(
            'taxonomy' => 'people',
            'field' => 'slug', //can be set to ID
            'terms' => 'bob' //if field is ID you can reference by cat/term number
        )
    )
);
$query = new WP_Query( $args );

    See this entry for more details:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Taxonomy_Parameters

  2. I could not for the life of me get any of the above to work. They either brought back everything or nothing. So after a bit of trial and error, I did this:-

    id is the slug of the category I want.

    if (isset($_GET["id"])) {

    $id = $_GET["id"];

    echo $id;

    $id = get_category_by_slug( $_GET["id"] );

    if (isset($id)) {
        $id = $id->term_id;

        $args = array(
            'post_status' => 'publish',
            'post_type' => 'Products',
            'cat' => $id,
        );
    }
}

$query = new WP_Query($args);

    I’m new to WordPress, having programmed just about every other language, and I have no idea if this is a good or bad way to do things I just know it works for my needs 🙂

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