How to get term link that crosses different custom post types?

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In my WordPress project, I have several different custom post types and they all share a common taxonomy. I am in the final stage of the project and now is time to link all custom post types using a sidebar widget. The problem I am having is that I don’t know the appropriate way to get the term link linked to the correct custom post type.

For example, I have custom post types: book, author, product; and a taxonomy: genre that includes a horror category.

I would like to be able to get link structure as such:

/book/genre/horror
/product/genre/horror
/author/genre/horror

When I do get_term_link('horror');, I get one of the term links, it seems that one of the custom post type has preference. How can I manage to get each term link corresponding to the correct custom post type?

Hard coding it is never a good idea, so I was wondering if there is a proper way to go about this. This is an old issue I am having, and have done a lot of searching for a solution but I didn’t find it. I come here as the last resort. Thanks.

2 Answers
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This code display all posts of all categories of genre taxonomy for custom post type book. Now, For different custom post type (author, product ) you have to change Custom Post Type Name inside $arg of WP_Query(). You will get term link using get_term_link($catterm) function or you can use also get_the_term_list().

 $args = array(
            'number'     => $number,
            'hide_empty' => $hide_empty,
            'include'    => $ids
        );

        $custom_categories = get_terms( 'genre ', $args );

        foreach ( $custom_categories as $catterm){

            $arg = Array( 
            'post_type' => 'book',
            'posts_per_page' => '-1',
            'post_status' => 'publish',
            'tax_query' => Array( Array ( 
            'taxonomy' => 'genre ' ,
            'terms' => $catterm->term_id
            )) );

        $loop = new WP_Query( $arg ); 
        global $post;
        while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
        ?>

        <div class="gallery-content">
        <div class="entry-content">

        <?php 
         echo '<li>' . get_the_title() . '</li>';
         echo '<li><a href="'.get_term_link($catterm).'">'.$catterm->name.'</a></li>';   
        ?>  

        </div>
        </div>

       <?php endwhile;
        }   
        ?>

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