Reply To: Multi Select – Get all choices for Query Args

• rhand

• October 30, 2021 at 12:15 am

I think this is closer now:

// Variables
$number_of_events = get_field( 'number_of_events' );
// print_r($number_of_events);
$terms = get_field('events_category');
$term_slugs ='';
foreach ( $terms as $term ):
    $term_slugs .= esc_html( $term->slug ) . ',';
    endforeach;
$term_slugs = substr($term_slugs, 0, -1); //Removes very last comma.
// echo $term_slugs;
// local,virtual,

$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'event',
    'posts_per_page' => $number_of_events,
    // 'event_category' => $term_slugs
    'tax_query' => [
        'taxonomy'         => 'event_category',
        'include_children' => false,
        'field'            => 'name',
        'terms'            => array($term_slugs),
    ],
);

but if I added term names I need to quote them as well still. So testing

// Variables
$number_of_events = get_field( 'number_of_events' );
// print_r($number_of_events);
$terms = get_field('events_category');
$term_slugs ='';
foreach ( $terms as $term ):
    $term_slugs .= "'" . esc_html( $term->slug ) . "'" . ',';
    endforeach;
$term_slugs = substr($term_slugs, 0, -1); //Removes very last comma.
echo $term_slugs;
// 'local','virtual'
$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'event',
    'posts_per_page' => $number_of_events,
    // 'event_category' => $term_slugs
    'tax_query' => [
        'taxonomy'         => 'event_category',
        'include_children' => false,
        'field'            => 'name',
        'terms'            => array($term_slugs),
    ],
);

Seems though when I use local as category which has only one post and select 4 as the number of posts I still see all four.