wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-posts-controller.php:3135Prepares the 'tax_query' for a collection of posts.
$argsarray$requestWP_REST_Requestarray private function prepare_tax_query( array $args, WP_REST_Request $request ) { $relation = $request['tax_relation']; if ( $relation ) { $args['tax_query'] = array( 'relation' => $relation ); } $taxonomies = wp_list_filter( get_object_taxonomies( $this->post_type, 'objects' ), array( 'show_in_rest' => true ) ); foreach ( $taxonomies as $taxonomy ) { $base = ! empty( $taxonomy->rest_base ) ? $taxonomy->rest_base : $taxonomy->name; $tax_include = $request[ $base ]; $tax_exclude = $request[ $base . '_exclude' ]; if ( $tax_include ) { $terms = array(); $include_children = false; $operator = 'IN'; if ( rest_is_array( $tax_include ) ) { $terms = $tax_include; } elseif ( rest_is_object( $tax_include ) ) { $terms = empty( $tax_include['terms'] ) ? array() : $tax_include['terms']; $include_children = ! empty( $tax_include['include_children'] ); if ( isset( $tax_include['operator'] ) && 'AND' === $tax_include['operator'] ) { $operator = 'AND'; } } if ( $terms ) { $args['tax_query'][] = array( 'taxonomy' => $taxonomy->name, 'field' => 'term_id', 'terms' => $terms, 'include_children' => $include_children, 'operator' => $operator, ); } } if ( $tax_exclude ) { $terms = array(); $include_children = false; if ( rest_is_array( $tax_exclude ) ) { $terms = $tax_exclude; } elseif ( rest_is_object( $tax_exclude ) ) { $terms = empty( $tax_exclude['terms'] ) ? array() : $tax_exclude['terms']; $include_children = ! empty( $tax_exclude['include_children'] ); } if ( $terms ) { $args['tax_query'][] = array( 'taxonomy' => $taxonomy->name, 'field' => 'term_id', 'terms' => $terms, 'include_children' => $include_children, 'operator' => 'NOT IN', ); } } } return $args; }Introduced in 5.7.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
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