specific custom taxonomy terms by category id

ok, i got this working, finally! the problem came because the “tag_link” was only retrieving the base url of the custom taxonomy term but not the url. I added a query to retrieve the slug and then just add it on to the printed content within my template. Here is the code, ready to be inserted into your custom taxonomy equipped theme.

in functions.php add

function get_category_media($args) {
	global $wpdb;
	$tags = $wpdb->get_results
	("
		SELECT DISTINCT terms2.term_id as tag_id, terms2.name as tag_name, terms2.slug as tag_slug, null as tag_link
		FROM
			wp_posts as p1
			LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships as r1 ON p1.ID = r1.object_ID
			LEFT JOIN wp_term_taxonomy as t1 ON r1.term_taxonomy_id = t1.term_taxonomy_id
			LEFT JOIN wp_terms as terms1 ON t1.term_id = terms1.term_id,

			wp_posts as p2
			LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships as r2 ON p2.ID = r2.object_ID
			LEFT JOIN wp_term_taxonomy as t2 ON r2.term_taxonomy_id = t2.term_taxonomy_id
			LEFT JOIN wp_terms as terms2 ON t2.term_id = terms2.term_id
		WHERE
			t1.taxonomy = 'category' AND p1.post_status = 'publish' AND terms1.term_id IN (".$args['categories'].") AND
			t2.taxonomy = 'media' AND p2.post_status = 'publish'
			AND p1.ID = p2.ID
		ORDER by tag_name
	");
	$count = 0;
	foreach ($tags as $tag) {
		$tags[$count]->tag_link = get_term_link($tag, 'media');
		$count++;
	}
	return $tags;
}

(if you are running multiple wordpress installs on your server, you probably changed the ‘wp’ table prefix so make sure about that.)

insert into your category template (and alter as needed):

$category = get_the_category();
$category_id = $category[0]->cat_ID;
$args = array(
	'categories'				=> $category_id
);
$tags = get_category_tags($args);
$content .= "

<ul>";
foreach ($tags as $tag) {
	$content .= "

<li><a>tag_link$tag->tag_slug\">$tag->tag_name</a></li>
";
}
$content .= "</ul>
";
echo $content;

this probably could use to be cleaned up seeing as it is the first time ive really delved this deep into an SQL query. But it is doing the job, so I hope it works for you.