The Host Wiz » WP SQL Queries http://www.thehostwiz.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 19 Jun 2010 03:03:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Wordpress – How to Query the Categories and not the Tags in Wordpress http://www.thehostwiz.com/wordpress/wp-sql-queries/how-to-query-the-categories-in-and-not-the-tags-in-wordpress/ http://www.thehostwiz.com/wordpress/wp-sql-queries/how-to-query-the-categories-in-and-not-the-tags-in-wordpress/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:02:48 +0000 admin http://www.thehostwiz.com/?p=11 Today I had found I had a problem with an old plugin that queried terms table for categories. It seemed after upgrading Wordpress to the latest version, I was getting all of the tags along with the categories. All I wanted was the categories.

Well I found that the results of the terms table also included the tags(which were previously in the posts table. After some research I found that this change was implemented over a year ago. So much for me keeping up with the changes.

Well I had to figure out how Wordpress differenciates between tags and categories, This is were the term_taxonomy table comes into play. The ID of the category or term from the terms table is placed in the term_taxonomy table and gets identified with either category or post_tag in the taxonomy fieldof term_taxonomy.

$r = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM {$table_prefix}terms, {$table_prefix}term_taxonomy
WHERE {$table_prefix}terms.term_id = {$table_prefix}term_taxonomy.term_id
AND {$table_prefix}term_taxonomy.taxonomy = 'category'");
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