Question

Although I have experience with PHP, WordPress is pretty new to me and I am struggling here.

I am trying to help a friend complete a theme. He works with several artists and each artist has a WP page named after the artist (i.e., Tom Jones) on which he wants to display only the posts about that artist. We define a tag for each artist ( Tom Jones ) with a slug like ( tom-jones )

Following the Codex, I am prepping the Loop in the template as follows:

$tags = get_tags();
//query_posts( array( 'tag' => $tag->slug ) );
query_posts( array( 'tag' => 'tom-jones' ) );

if( have_posts()) : while( have_posts() ) : the_post();
  echo '<li id="feed<?php theID(); ?>" style="border-bottom:1px solid #404040;">';
  echo '<table><tr><td width="40">';
  echo '<img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'image_path', true); ?>" />';
  echo '</td><td><a href="';
  the_permalink(); 
  echo '">';
  the_title();                            
  echo '</a><br><span class="smTxt">Posted by ';
  the_author();
  echo ' on <em>';
  the_time('F jS, Y');
  echo '</em></span><br>';
  the_excerpt();
  echo '</td></tr></table></li>';
  endwhile;
else:
  echo '<h3>There are no posts.</h3>';
endif;

I would have thought that the query_post that is commented out would have grabbed the particular slug of the artist but it returns “No Posts”. When I hard code as it is now, it works as expected.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Try this

query_posts( array( 'tag' => get_query_var('tag') ) );

This post may help you.

Update:

As you said artist is a custom texonomy so try this

$the_tax = get_taxonomy( get_query_var( 'taxonomy' ) );
query_posts( array( 'artist' => $the_tax->labels->name ) );

Must use wp_reset_query() after the loop when you are using query_posts

You may read this post.

Update: (using WP_Query)

$the_tax = get_taxonomy( get_query_var( 'taxonomy' ) );
$args = array(
'tax_query' => array(
    array(
        'taxonomy' => 'artist',
        'field' => 'slug',
        'terms' => $the_tax->labels->name
    )
)
);
$query = new WP_Query( $args );