Reply To: Grouping Results by Field on the Front-end

• James

• June 1, 2016 at 1:31 pm

Hi @jeathree

There are two methods that I can think for your case.

First, you can loop trough the available categories and query the posts based on it like this:

$args = array(
        'post_type'      => 'nldf',
        'posts_per_page' => -1,
        'post_parent'    => $post->ID,
        'meta_key'         => 'nldf_category_type',
        'meta_value'     => $the_category,
        'order'          => 'ASC',
        'orderby'        => 'menu_order'
    );

Where $the_category is the category in the loop.

The second method, you can get the posts by using the get_posts() function instead of the WP_Query class and then loop trough the posts and group it accordingly in an array. Maybe something like this (I assume that ‘nldf_category_type’ is a taxonomy field):

// Get all of the posts
$posts_array = get_posts( $args );

// Create a new array
$grouped_posts = array();

// Group it in a new array
foreach( $posts_array as $the_post ) {
    $category = get_field('nldf_category_type', $the_post->ID);
    
    // If the category group is not created yet, create it!
    if( !isset($grouped_posts[$category->name]) ){
        $grouped_posts[$category->name] = array();
    }
    
    // Put the post in the group
    $grouped_posts[$category->name][] = $the_post;
    
}

// Loop it!
foreach( $grouped_posts as $cat_name => $the_posts ) {
    echo $cat_name;
    foreach( $the_posts as $the_post ){
        echo $the_post->title;
    }
}

I hope this helps 🙂