Reply To: Related Posts based on ACF Fields

• James

• October 10, 2016 at 12:37 pm

Hi @neodjandre

Do you mean you want to get the custom field value from inside a custom shortcode? I believe you can do that by passing the current post ID to the get_field() function like this:

// Get the current post object first
global $post;

$location = get_field('location', $post->ID);

To get the related posts, you can always query them based on custom field value like this:

// get the value without the formatting so we can search it in the database
$location = get_field('location', $post->ID, false);

$posts = get_posts(array(
    'numberposts'    => 5,
    'post_type'      => 'custom-post',
    'meta_key'       => 'location',
    'meta_value'     => $location
));

This page should give you more idea about it: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/query-posts-custom-fields/.

I hope this helps 🙂