Finding posts with tag1 AND tag2? (using a join-table) Exists / Having / subqueries… What to use?

Question

I need to make a query to search and filter on multiple terms.

I have a table with weapons and all can have multiple tags. I want to be able to create a filter o

Answer 1

Try this:

SELECT * FROM wp_posts AS p
LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships AS tr ON p.ID = tr.object_id 
LEFT JOIN wp_terms AS t ON tr.term_taxonomy_id = t.term_id 
WHERE p.id IN 
(
    SELECT p2.id FROM wp_posts AS p2
    LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships AS tr2 ON p2.ID = tr2.object_id 
    LEFT JOIN wp_terms AS t2 ON tr2.term_taxonomy_id = t2.term_id 
    GROUP BY p2.id
    HAVING FIND_IN_SET('blue', GROUP_CONCAT(t2.term)) AND FIND_IN_SET('old', GROUP_CONCAT(t2.term))
)