In my setup, I have two custom taxonomy called Regions & Sections. All the post in site can either be from region taxonomy or from section taxonomy.

At certain point outside the loop I have the post details and I need the taxonomy ID. I don't have the taxonomy name at that point to use get_the_terms function.

Any help will be very appreciated.

In my setup, I have two custom taxonomy called Regions & Sections. All the post in site can either be from region taxonomy or from section taxonomy.

At certain point outside the loop I have the post details and I need the taxonomy ID. I don't have the taxonomy name at that point to use get_the_terms function.

Any help will be very appreciated.

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1 Answer 1

You can use wp_get_post_terms() which will return all the terms attached to the post, if any. Then, the first term of the array will be able to tell you which taxonomy it belongs to:

global $post;

$terms = wp_get_post_terms( $post->ID, array( 'regions', 'sections' ) );

if( ! empty( $terms ) && ! is_wp_error( $terms ) ) {
    $taxonomy = $terms[0]->taxonomy;
}

I do not know what your taxonomy slugs are so I guess, you may need to change them to fit your specific setup.