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Displaying a single term of a custom taxonomy in Wordpress

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Get the single term object using get_term($term_ID, $taxonomy), or alternatively get_term_by('slug', $term_slug, $taxonomy).

The term object will have, among other properties;

$term->name; // the name of the term!
$term->slug;
$term->term_id;
$term->count; // number of objects using the term

TheDeadMedic 2010-06-04 10:43:04

Yes, I have tried this but it's not giving me anything at all. Maybe I'm using it wrong, but <?php get_term('taxonomy_name'); ?> isn't giving me any results.

Ragnar 2010-06-04 10:52:24

The first argument needs to be the ID of the single term. The second argument is the term taxonomy.

TheDeadMedic 2010-06-04 12:17:48

If you just want to get the first term of a taxonomy, use `$terms = get_terms($taxonomy)`. The first term will be `$terms[0]`.

TheDeadMedic 2010-06-04 12:19:48

Still not getting anything, but probably not using it right again.<?php$terms = get_terms('issue');$terms[0]?>Like this?

Ragnar 2010-06-04 12:59:07

Yes, but `$terms[0]` will do nothing on it's own - how about `echo $terms[0]->name;`?

TheDeadMedic 2010-06-04 15:29:53

Thanks, man! It's working alright but it's not what I'm looking for. It's showing the term by ID, but what I need is to show whatever the term is in a specific taxonomy. I always have one term in the taxonomy, but each time it's different, so I'm looking for a way to show it.

Ragnar 2010-06-06 07:31:37

I'm sure what I've provided is what you're looking for - perhaps I'm misunderstanding? Just use `get_terms()` to get all the terms for any taxonomy (even if there's only one term, an array is still returned), then use `$terms[0]` to get the first item.

TheDeadMedic 2010-06-06 10:30:39

Hmm, ok, thanks again, man. I will look into it, maybe there was something wrong with my loop but it was showing the same value for all of the items the loop got, very weird.

Ragnar 2010-06-07 06:52:32

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