Reply To: meta_query returns false if field doesn\\\'t exist

• John Huebner

• October 12, 2016 at 1:46 am

https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Custom_Field_Parameters, add a query for “NOT EXISTS”

'meta_query' => array(
  'relation' => 'OR',
    array(
      'key' => 'hidden',
      'value' => '1',
      'compare' => '!='
    ),
    array(
      'key' => 'hidden',
      'compare' => 'NOT EXISTS'
    )
  );

);