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David Klotz
David Klotz
19,659 Points
Posted by David Klotz
David Klotz
19,659 Points

how to display custom category on a custom post type

I have created a custom post type "ads" and I want to have custom categories for those ads the same way that wordpress posts have categories by default. I found this bit of code to create custom taxonomies, which displays in the admin properly but I am struggling to figure out how to then get the categories to display on the custom post.

add_action( 'init', 'build_taxonomies', 0 );

function build_taxonomies() { register_taxonomy( 'categories', 'ads', array( 'hierarchical' => true, 'label' => 'Ad Categories', 'query_var' => true, 'rewrite' => true ) ); }

Anyone have any experience with this?

1 Answer

khubbaib Naeem
khubbaib Naeem
337 Points
khubbaib Naeem
khubbaib Naeem
337 Points

You can do in this way

   $terms = get_the_terms( get_the_ID(), 'your_category' );                                                     
if ( $terms && ! is_wp_error( $terms ) ) : 
   $ads_links = array();

foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
        $ads_links [] = $term->name;
    }                                                   
    $ads_categories = join( ", ", $ads_links ); 
   echo $ads_categories ;

Hope it will helpful...

David Klotz
David Klotz
19,659 Points
David Klotz
David Klotz
19,659 Points

Thanks Khubbaib, I'll give that a try!