Displaying category descriptions using custom taxonomy and cpt

So you need them perhaps in a wrapping div and paragraphs?

<div>
<p>Term title</p>
<p>term description</p>

<p>Term title</p>
<p>term description</p>

<p>Term title</p>
<p>term description</p>
</div>

Or some other format?

For my example format, something like this should work:

$terms = get_the_terms( get_the_ID(), 'artists' );
if ( ! empty( $terms ) && ! is_wp_error( $terms ) ) {
	echo '<div>';
	foreach( $terms as $term ) {
		echo '<p>' . $term->name . '</p>';
		echo '<p>' . term_description( $term->term_id ) . '</p>';
	}
	echo '</div>';
}

Assuming I don’t have any typos or php errors, but I am not seeing any at the moment.

Hello,

thanks a lot for answering me!

I finally use your code with this little modification:

function wpb_catlist_desc()
{
  $terms = get_the_terms( get_the_ID(), 'ville' );
  if ( ! empty( $terms ) && ! is_wp_error( $terms ) ) {
    echo '';
    foreach( $terms as $term ) {
      echo '<div id="lieu_detail"><h4>' . $term->name . '</h4>';
      echo term_description( $term->term_id ) . '</div>';
    }
  }
    echo '';
}

add_shortcode('cat_desc', 'wpb_catlist_desc');

I think a } was missing, and I added it before the last echo, is it right?

The code works, but in a funny way:

The content displays himself in the very beginning of #main-content, and absolutely not where I placed the shortcode, I don’t understand why.

Can you please help me to understand why?

Thanks a lot

Caroline

Because of the fact that you turned this into a callback for a shortcode, you need to return the content, not echo out directly, in a sense. Try out this version below. I removed the empty echo calls before the foreach and after the if statement, there’s no need for those. I also added what’s called output buffering which is going to catch and store output normally sent to the browser, into a touch of memory aka the buffer, and then at the end return the collected buffer to WordPress to then output at the appropriate time, where you put the shortcode.

function wpb_catlist_desc() {
	ob_start();
	$terms = get_the_terms( get_the_ID(), 'ville' );
	if ( ! empty( $terms ) && ! is_wp_error( $terms ) ) {
		foreach( $terms as $term ) {
			echo '<div id="lieu_detail"><h4>' . $term->name . '</h4>';
			echo term_description( $term->term_id ) . '</div>';
		}
	}
	return ob_get_clean();
}
add_shortcode('cat_desc', 'wpb_catlist_desc');

Thank you so much, it’s working just fine, and I understand for the return instead of echo in case of building a shortcode.

your explanations really help, I’m learning a lot at the same time

thank you!

Caroline

Welcome.

And one more thing I don’t know how to do, if you would like to help me a little more, is there a way to sort the results by slug?

I tried that, but it doesn’t work, the result is still order by name

function wpb_catlist_lieu_date_heure() {
  
  $args = array('orderby' => 'slug', 'order' => 'ASC');

  ob_start();
  $terms_ldh = get_the_terms( get_the_ID(), 'lieu_date_heure', $args );
  if ( ! empty( $terms_ldh ) && ! is_wp_error( $terms_ldh ) ) {
    foreach( $terms_ldh as $term_ldh ) {
      echo '<div class="lieu_date_heure">' . $term_ldh->name . '</div>';
    }
  }
  return ob_get_clean();
}
add_shortcode('lieu_date_heure', 'wpb_catlist_lieu_date_heure');

There’s no 3rd parameter for get_the_terms so that’s not going to work.

I’d need to do some trial/error to figure out a good sort method for this.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4282413/sort-array-of-objects-by-one-property may provide some inspiration on your side.

thanks, I will study this link