Sorting tags by name
You should use the function wp_tag_cloud, it has many parameters as described in the codex and the one to sort the results as you want: ‘orderby’ => ‘name’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’,.
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Creating links to a page displaying posts from a particular category
This should work: foreach ($tax_terms as $tax_term) { echo ‘<a href=”‘.get_term_link($tax_term).'”>’.$tax_term->name.'</a>’; } Simplified a bit from your version for readability.
Dynamic filtering of posts with custom taxonomies
Try this code in your template. Make sure to replace the post_type and custom taxonomies ( service & county ) with their appropriate slugs. $page_link = get_permalink(); $services = get_terms( ‘service’ ); $counties = get_terms( ‘counties’ ); $args = array(); $args[‘post_type’] = ‘business’; $args[‘paged’] = ( get_query_var( ‘paged’ ) ) ? get_query_var( ‘paged’ ) : … Read more
Alphabetically sort a taxonomy.php template by post title
you can query_posts and orderby=title: <?php //*The Query*// $paged = ( get_query_var( ‘paged’ ) ) ? get_query_var( ‘paged’ ) : 1; query_posts($query_string . ‘&post_type=YOUR-POST-TYPE&posts_per_page=1&orderby=title&order=asc&paged=’.$paged); if(have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <?php endwhile; ?> <?php else : ?> <?php endif; wp_reset_query(); ?> more info: WP_Query#Order/Orderby Parameters
Need help deciding on a taxonomy
I’d suggest Apparel Collection as a custom post type. Shirts, Jeans etc as Categories. Colors, size, etc as tags. That way, any body searching for only XL size can group all apparel with tag XL. You can further group per-apparel along with a tag. Should make your job easier. Also, if you decide to create … Read more
How to make tags show up in search results?
You’d have to do some modification to the generated SQL query via filters: posts_search, posts_join, posts_where. Or you can just use the plugin Search Everything.
Edit custom taxonomy description programatically
If you get_term() you can access the description via the description property. To update a term you can use wp_update_term().
Help Understanding Taxonomy
Categories are taxonomies so using a custom taxonomy is no different then using categories, but if you have for example categories with Action, Arcade, Strategy … and a custom taxonomy console with : XBox 360, PS3, WI … then you can use that to show reviews for games that are Action games and that are … Read more
List custom taxonomy as navigation – taxonomy pages with all it’s posts?
You can create the file taxonomy-event_type.php. That will be used when you use the url /?event_type=lectures or /event_type/lectures. You can use wp_list_categories by adding ‘taxonomy’ => ‘event_type’ to the arguments (see http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories#Display_Terms_in_a_custom_taxonomy)
Invalid Taxonomy
Your taxonomy has the slug “Guide Categories” which is invalid. The first parameter is the name of the taxonomy, not the human readable name of the taxonomy. That gets defined in the labels. I recommend you generate your taxonomy registration code using this generator: http://themergency.com/generators/wordpress-custom-taxonomy/ It covers all the options available in a nice step … Read more