Reply To: get_field occassionally returning string with repeater field

• aidanww

• January 5, 2021 at 12:43 am

Hi John,

Thanks for that & apologies for the delayed reply. I have tried this solution – it does allow the repeater fields to populate ok, but at the expense of the thumbnails not appearing and the relevant code not running.

I have found this is to do with $query.

Below is the relevant code, echo tests were done throughout

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'add_my_post_types_to_query' );
  function add_my_post_types_to_query( $query ) {
    // test to make sure this is the main query
    // and not the admin
    if (is_admin() || !$query->is_main_query()) {
      return;
    }
    $query->set( 'post_type', array( 'post', 'event' ) );
    return $query;
  }

  the_post();
  $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
  $url = explode("/", $url);
  $field = $url[count($url)-3];
  $value = $url[count($url)-2];
  $query = new WP_Query( array(
    'numberposts' => -1,
    'category_name' => $value
  ));
?>

<?php echo 'text1'; ?>
<div class="row">
  <?php echo 'text2'; ?>
  <div class="col-md-9">
    <?php echo 'text3'; ?>
    <?php get_template_part('templates/page', 'header'); ?>
    <?php the_content(); ?>
    <?php echo 'text4'; ?>
    <?php while ($query->have_posts()) : $query->the_post(); ?>
      <?php echo 'text5'; ?>
      <article <?php body_class("event") ?>>
        <div class="well">
          <div class="container">
            <div class="row">
              <div class="col-md-4">
                <?php echo 'text6'; ?>
                <div class="img-thumbnail">........

And on the site, the echo call for ‘text5’ is not met, only up to ‘text4’. So I guess this is because <?php while ($query->have_posts()) : is never met because if (is_admin() || !$query->is_main_query()) is true?

Do you know how to proceed with this? As I say this is way out of my comfort zone, so your help is really appreciated!

Many thanks,
Aidan