Reply To: Querying users by custom field

• John Huebner

• June 1, 2015 at 3:58 am

Yes there is. ACF stores fields on user forms in the usermeta table.

The difficulty is that checkbox fields are arrays stored as serialized data. In order to do a user query you would need to use the “LIKE” compare method in the meta_query for the user query.

something like

'meta_query' => array(
  array(
    'key' => 'my_field',
    'value' => 'my_value',
    'compare' => 'LIKE'
  )
)

if you’re looking for more than one value then you’d need to look for each value with and ‘AND’ or ‘OR’ for the relation value, depending on what you want returned.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_User_Query