Reply To: Meta query for image field issue

• dorjeduck

• May 5, 2016 at 8:06 am

Thanks again for keep supporting me here, particular as this is clearly a wp issue as I understand now.

Since I had to come up with a quick solution I just decided to go for the following workaround:

When I import a new image I set the value of the image field explicitly to ”. (Which is very doable in my case as I create all posts via wpcli …)

Since there is no need anymore to check for cases of non existent image fields I just query as follows (which is the complete query as i use it in my actual program, including only an additional paged parameter)

$wp_query = new WP_Query( array(
	'post_type'      => 'post',
	'posts_per_page' => 15,
	'paged'          => $paged,
	'meta_key' => 'delight_image',
	'meta_query' => array(
		array(
			'key' => 'delight_image',
			'value' => '',
			'compare' => '!=',
		),
	),
) );

Luckily it now works as expected. Sorry I didn’t dig deeper into this but sometimes workarounds are just the way to go 🙂

thanks

maritn