Include Taxonomy Terms in WP_Query

Question

I am building a search page with a new instance of wp_query I am passing a string into s to get a part number which is currently a taxonomy term. Is there a way to include to the taxonomy term in a custom wp_query? Happy help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You can query posts by a taxonomy value like in the example below:

$query_string = 'francis';

$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'post',
    'tax_query' => array(
        array(
            'taxonomy' => 'people',         // your taxonomy name
            'field'    => 'slug',
            'terms'    => $query_string,    // the slug you want to search for - which in your case is passed through the query string
        ),
    ),
);
$query = new WP_Query( $args );

To access the query string, use get_search_query().