Get Taxonomy Terms

Use GP Populate Anything to find categories, tags, or terms from a custom taxonomy and return them as a collection.

When to use it

Use this when a workflow needs the terms that organize WordPress content: build a category summary, find a term by slug, or process every term in a taxonomy.

Settings

With GP Populate Anything active, configure which terms to find and how to return them.

Setting	What it does
Limit	Sets the maximum number of terms to return. Defaults to 25 and accepts flow tags.
Return	Term IDs only returns summary data while For Each processes the saved collection. Choose Full terms to add the terms to items for other list-processing steps.
Filter Groups	Narrows the results by Taxonomy, Name, Slug, Parent Term, Post Count, term meta, or other available properties. Conditions within a group use AND; separate groups use OR.
Ordering	Chooses the property to sort by and the order: Ascending, Descending, or Random.

See the GP Populate Anything documentation for all available term filters.

Output and branches

The step exposes Output and Error branches. Successful queries continue through Output. Matching terms are stored as a collection so For Each can load each term and expose values such as {{item.term_id}}, {{item.name}}, and {{item.slug}}.

There is no separate “no results” branch; no matches produce an empty collection and continue through Output. Set Return to Full terms when another list-processing step needs the complete list.

Example

Find terms in a custom product_category taxonomy, labeled Product Category, for a report:

1. Add a filter group with Taxonomy is Product Category.
2. Leave Limit at 25 if the taxonomy has 25 or fewer terms. Raise it to include more terms in a larger taxonomy.
3. Set Ordering to Name, Ascending.
4. Connect For Each and use {{item.name}} in the reporting step on its Each item branch.