I’ve added correct indenting to your question, which should make the problem more obvious. The problem is that you meant: foreach ( $state as $state ) update_post_meta($post_id,’state’,$state->name); What you actually put is: foreach ( $state as $state ); update_post_meta($post_id,’state’,$state->name); Which expands to: foreach ( $state as $state ) { // do nothing } //insert post … Read more
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I am assuming your custom taxonomy is hierarchal and you are attempting to get the children within the hierarchy. If so this previous answer may help Get the children of the parent category And this wp func: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_term_children/
Use this function to determine if Taxonomy is hierarchical or not: Function Reference/is taxonomy hierarchical « WordPress Codex Example: // taxonomy term archives $post_type = get_post_type(); $taxonomies = get_object_taxonomies($post_type); if(!empty($taxonomies)){ foreach($taxonomies as $taxonomy){ // only want hierarchical — no tags please if(is_taxonomy_hierarchical($taxonomy)){ $terms = get_terms($taxonomy); if(!empty($terms)){ echo “<ul>”; foreach ( $terms as $term ) { … Read more
You could build a SQL query using $wpdb containing all your post IDs from the array that will list all the terms. Or even better get the post IDs in the same query instead of getting them from the array you mentioned. This is an example: global $wpdb; $query = $wpdb->get_results( $wpdb->prepare( “select * from … Read more