How to Output Custom Taxonomies with the Custom Posts Belonging to Each One

I recently encountered a small problem while developing a WordPress website. Here’s the scenario:

I have a custom post type called: staff_members. I have also created Custom post types under that which included names of people with their biographies. In the mean time, I have a custom taxonomy called: departments (highlighted in bold below)

The problem was…

how do I output a list of all taxonomies attached to a the custom post type, with a list under each taxonomy of the custom posts under each one. In other words, how do I output the following?

Quality Control Department

• John Smith
• David Feldman

Financial Department

• Mark Robinson
• Richard Carpenter
• Sarah Fisherman

Media Department

• James Shelver
• Alfred Kane

After a bit of research I found this excellent code at WordPress Help which I thought I should share with everyone having the same problem.

I wish I remembered to bookmark the post but extortionately I didn’t

Code snippet to list custom taxonomies with the custom posts under each one:

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//for a given post type, return all taxonomies attached to it
$post_type = 'staff_members';
$tax = 'departments';
$tax_terms = get_terms($tax);
if ($tax_terms) {
  foreach ($tax_terms  as $tax_term) {
    $args=array(
      'post_type' => $post_type,
      "$tax" => $tax_term->slug,
      'post_status' => 'publish',
      'posts_per_page' => -1,
      'caller_get_posts'=> 1
    );
 
    $my_query = null;
    $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
    if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
      echo '
<h3>'.$tax_term-&gt;name.'</h3>
';
      while ($my_query-&gt;have_posts()) : $my_query-&gt;the_post(); ?&gt;
        <a href="&lt;?php the_permalink();?&gt;"><!--?php the_title();?--></a>
        <!--?php       endwhile;     }     wp_reset_query();   } } ?-->

So go ahead, and try it out and if you have any questions, kindly leave them at the comments below

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