This answer provides the code for a query that returns an OR match on a taxonomy term:
global $query_string;
$args['tax_query'] = array(
array(
'taxonomy' => 'status'
,'terms' => array( 'available', 'pending' ) // change to "sold" for 2nd query
,'field' => 'slug'
),
);
I’d like to have my taxonomy template retrieve the term values for the array ( ,’terms’ => array( ‘available’, ‘pending’ ) ) from the URL, the same as for the single term.
The point is to allow taxonomy terms to change over time, without having to hard-code page templates for particular combinations of interest, so that, if there’s a better way, please suggest it.
Thanks to this post I have permalinks mapping to template files as follows:
example.com/cptslugs maps to my archive-cptname.php template. example.com/cptslug/cpt-post maps to my single-cptname.php template. example.com/cptslugs/ctxslug/term maps to my taxonomy-ctxname.php template.
I’d like to have something like:
example.com/cptslugs/ctxslug/term1/term2/
map to my taxonomy-ctxname.php template such that get_query_var( ‘term’ ) returns an array of terms (term1,term2) from the url.
but if I could get
example.com/cptslugs/ctxslug/?terms=term1,term2
to map to my taxonomy-ctxname.php template such that get_query_var( ‘term’ ) returns an array of terms (term1,term2) from the url, perhaps via a rewrite rule and a filter, that would be ok, too.
But either way, the idea is that the template file should work, whether it’s passed one term or an array of terms.
UPDATE
Ok – @scribu to the rescue! — maybe. Kept searching, and this is what I found. Thought I had it all figured, but I can’t get it to work.
?tax1=term1,term2&tax2=term2+term3
maps to:
query_posts( array( 'tax1' => 'term1,term2', 'tax2' => 'term3+term4' ) );
which further maps to:
query_posts( array(
'tax_query' => array(
array(
'taxonomy' => 'tax1',
'field' => 'slug',
'terms' => array('term1', 'term2'),
'operator' => 'OR'
),
array(
'taxonomy' => 'tax2',
'field' => 'slug',
'terms' => array('term3', 'term4'),
'operator' => 'AND'
),
) );
example.com/?ctxname=term1,term2
renders the front page template. Revision: it renders taxonomy-ctxname.php when you spell ctxname correctly. Imaging that!
example.com/?cptslug/ctxslug=term1,term2
(taxonomy is registered with a slug of cptslug/ctxslug) also renders the front page template.
example.com/cptslug/?ctxslug=term1+term2
renders the archive-ctpname.php template.
How do I get a URL that renders the taxonomy-ctxname.php or the taxonomy.php template?
Then, once I get that down – suggestions for pretty urls are welcome but not absolutely necessary.
UPDATE TWO
example.com/?ctxname=term1,term2
and
example.com/ctpslugs/ctxslug/term1,term2/
Both render taxonomy-ctxname.php as desired. See details in my answer, posted below.
After adding
to my template and examining the results, I have discovered URL formats that work. I wrote, in my question, that the following format doesn’t work — in fact, it does – if you spell your custom taxonomy name correctly.
Pretty URLs with the ‘+’ and ‘,’ operators (indicating AND and OR respectively) are only recognized when not URL-encoded.
produces the following WP_Tax_Query Object
[tax_query] => WP_Tax_Query Object ( [queries] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [taxonomy] => announcements_cats [terms] => Array ( [0] => term1 [1] => term2 ) [include_children] => 1 [field] => slug [operator] => IN ) [1] => Array ( [taxonomy] => category [terms] => Array ( [0] => 1 ) [include_children] => [field] => term_id [operator] => NOT IN ) ) [relation] => AND )While
produces the following WP_Tax_Query Object
[tax_query] => WP_Tax_Query Object ( [queries] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [taxonomy] => ctxname [terms] => Array ( [0] => term1 ) [include_children] => 1 [field] => slug [operator] => IN ) [1] => Array ( [taxonomy] => ctxname [terms] => Array ( [0] => term2 ) [include_children] => 1 [field] => slug [operator] => IN ) [2] => Array ( [taxonomy] => category [terms] => Array ( [0] => 1 ) [include_children] => [field] => term_id [operator] => NOT IN ) ) [relation] => AND )P.S.: According to this: the ‘+’ and the ‘,’ are ‘Reserved Characters’ and can be used in the path, parameters and fragment of a URI, but may not appear in other parts of a URI. I guess it’s OK after all. Just seems ‘wrong’ somehow, though.