Display information from the cptonomy term

Let me make sure I understand what you’re trying to do.

“albums” is the cpt-onomy attached to “songs”, so “songs” is the parent in this scenario. So when you’re displaying a “song”, you want to pull which “albums” have assigned themselves to the “song” and then display the album’s featured image?

The “song” edit screen has a list of albums on the side as “cptonomies” so a “song” get’s linked to one or more albums.

In the single-song.php Id like to show the “album” title and thumbnail on the side.

I hope I make any sense ??

Basically, you need to get the object’s (song’s) term (albums) IDs and then retrieve albums info but only the albums that are “attached” to the song.

This little snippet of code should help, adjusting parameters to fit your needs:

// retrieve the IDs of albums "attached" to this song
$albums = wp_get_object_terms( get_the_ID(), 'albums', array( 'fields' => 'ids' ) );

// use "the Loop" to retrieve album info, but we only want the albums with particular IDs ('post__in')
$albums = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'albums', 'post__in' => $albums, 'orderby' => 'title', 'order' => 'ASC', 'showposts' => -1 ) );

// print the albums
if ( $albums->have_posts() ) :
   while( $albums->have_posts() ) : $albums->the_post();
      the_title();
      the_post_thumbnail();
   endwhile;
endif;

Hi Rachael, Thanks for showing the way to get the CPTerm data. It works great!

Good deal! You’re welcome!