Reply To: get all posts in custom post type by ACF field value

• TrishaM

• August 21, 2019 at 5:32 am

@hube2 thank you for the explanation! I’m also so accustomed to typing ‘array’ that I don’t even think about it anymore….but it’s good to know the shortcut.

In the OP’s case, then it looks like his query is written correctly *except* that my understanding is that “LIKE” is for strings, but the meta_value looks like a number, so perhaps adding the meta_type and changing the operator to ‘=’ should work?

Like so:?

'meta_query' => [
        'key' => 'program_id',
        'value' => 5317,
        'type' => 'numeric',
        'compare' => '='

           ],

OR alternatively just do the query without using meta_query, like so:

$student_query_args = [
    'post_type' => 'student_list',
    'post_status' => 'publish',
    'posts_per_page' => 100,
    'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
    'order' => 'DESC',
    'meta_key' => 'program_id',
    'meta_value' => '5317'
];