Title: PHP error when using multiple taxonomy queries
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# PHP error when using multiple taxonomy queries

 *  Resolved [brian1037](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brian1037/)
 * (@brian1037)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-when-using-multiple-taxonomy-queries/)
 * In this example,
 * `
    $news_posts = new WP_Query(array( 'post_type' => 'post', 'posts_per_page' 
   => 5, 'tax_query' => array( 'relation' => 'AND', array( 'taxonomy' => 'article-
   format', 'terms' => 38, 'operator' => 'NOT IN' ), array( 'taxonomy' => 'article-
   format', 'terms' => 68, 'operator' => 'NOT IN' ), ) ));
 * This query seems to work, but polylang will still produce an error like this:
 * Warning: Illegal string offset ‘taxonomy’ in /home/…/wp-content/plugins/polylang/
   frontend/frontend.php on line 88
 * Removing the line ‘relation’ => ‘AND’ will stop the error, but I need that line
   😉
 * Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Chouby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chouby/)
 * (@chouby)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-when-using-multiple-taxonomy-queries/#post-5773965)
 * Hi!
 * Are you using the latest version?
 *  Thread Starter [brian1037](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brian1037/)
 * (@brian1037)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-when-using-multiple-taxonomy-queries/#post-5774027)
 * Silly me, I wasn’t, and updating to 1.6.4 fixed the issue. Thanks for the awesome
   plugin!

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-when-using-multiple-taxonomy-queries/#post-5774027)
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