Reply To: Why isn't Meta query working with ACF?

• nc

• August 2, 2019 at 10:45 am

I’m using a POST OBJECT acf field called “special_id” for a custom post type called ‘pencils’. If I remove the meta query from the args, I get the list of all Pencil posts it can find (drafts, specifically). When I add this meta_query, I get nothing back. Even though there are many draft posts with special_id “470”. I can use get_field(“special_id”, $pencil_type_id); and get the number 470 back.

But why can’t I query for those with this (or any) matching id? Do I have a typo or something?

$args = array(
‘post_type’ => ‘pencils’,
‘post_status’ => array(‘draft’),
‘numberposts’ => -1,
‘meta_query’ => array(
‘relation’ => ‘OR’,
array(
‘key’ => ‘special_id’,
‘value’ => 470,
‘compare’ => ‘=’,
),
array(
‘key’ => ‘special_id’,
‘value’ => array(470),
‘compare’ => ‘=’,
),
),

);
$posts = get_posts($args);`

get_post_meta( $some_pencil_id ) returns successfully:

meta: Array
(
 ...
    [special_id] => Array
        (
            [0] => 470
        )

  ...
}