Reply To: How to make field searchable and act like a category page

• John Huebner

• August 6, 2015 at 9:39 am

The only way to really do what you want is to use a custom taxonomy. WP does not have the ability to create archive pages based on a custom field. See my answer to this recent question for more information. http://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/linking-custom-fields-tag-or-archive-layout/

Also, check out these two pages I found on the subject
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/2545/show-links-to-archive-pages-based-on-custom-field-values
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-can-i-create-an-archive-by-custom-field

and do a search for wordpress archive page based on custom field

What you’re looking to do would be the same with or without ACF, it’s just something that WP doesn’t do easily.