WordPress Taxonomy, listing ONLY the single taxonomies - php

Question

So I have a custom Taxonomy 'Sectors'.
I am trying to display all the single posts in 'Sectors' in a list, just a basic list.
I currently do have it so, it will display the category, then a sub category, then the list from there.
I also have this, which lists all posts - (NOT TAXONOMY) :
<?php
$uncat = get_cat_ID('uncategorised');
$args = array(
'posts_per_page' => 5,
'category__not_in' => array($uncat)
);
$loop = new WP_Query( $args );
while ($loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
?>
<div class="col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12" style="padding-left:0; padding-right:0;">
<a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>">
<div class="postsize">
<div class="leftfloat" style="float: left; padding-right:20px;">
<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail( $page->ID, 'categoryimage', array('class' => 'faqposts')); ?>
</div>
<div class="contentfaq">
<h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
<span class="entry-date-orange"><strong><?php echo get_the_date(); ?></strong></span>
<?php
foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) {
echo ' | ' . $category->cat_name;
}
?>
<p style="margin-top:10px";><?php the_excerpt(); ?></p>
</div>
</div>
</a>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>
is there a way, to use this code below, to ONLY get items from the taxonomy 'sectors'?

Answer 1

For this to work, you will need to get all the terms belonging to your taxonomy, and then use a tax_query to query the correct posts. For effeciency, we will only get the term ids and not the complete objects
(NOTE: The code is untested and requires PHP 5.4+. Also, just confirm the taxonomy name)
$term_ids = get_terms( 'SectorCategories', ['fields' => 'ids'] );
if ( get_query_var( 'paged' ) ) {
$paged = get_query_var( 'paged' );
} elseif ( get_query_var( 'page' ) ) {
$paged = get_query_var( 'page' );
} else {
$paged = 1;
}
$args = [
'post_type' => 'sectors',
'posts_per_page' => 5,
'paged' => $paged,
'tax_query' => [
[
'taxonomy' => 'SectorCategories',
'terms' => $term_ids,
]
],
// REST OF YOUR ARGUMENTS
];
$loop = new WP_Query( $args );
EDIT
For older PHP versions, use the following code
$term_ids = get_terms( 'SectorCategories', array( 'fields' => 'ids' ) );
if ( get_query_var( 'paged' ) ) {
$paged = get_query_var( 'paged' );
} elseif ( get_query_var( 'page' ) ) {
$paged = get_query_var( 'page' );
} else {
$paged = 1;
}
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'sectors',
'posts_per_page' => 5,
'paged' => $paged,
'tax_query' => array(
array(
'taxonomy' => 'SectorCategories',
'terms' => $term_ids,
)
),
// REST OF YOUR ARGUMENTS
);
$loop = new WP_Query( $args );
EDIT 2
A very basic loop for the above query would look something like this
if ( $loop->have_posts() ) {
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) {
$loop->the_post();
the_title();
}
next_posts_link( 'Next posts', $loop->max_num_pages );
previous_posts_link( 'Previous posts' );
wp_reset_postdata();
}