Reply To: Sorting in drag and drop relation columns

• James

• October 22, 2016 at 4:11 pm

Hi @arakesh

For this kind of case, you need to check if the posts in the loop are discontinued or not. You can do it by using the true/false field in the posts you added to the relationship field. After that, you can put the discontinued posts in a variable and then print it later. It should be something like this:

$the_posts = get_field('relationship_field_name');

// Create a variable to contain the discontinued posts
$discontinued_posts = array();

if( $posts ): ?>
    <ul>
    
    <?php foreach( $the_posts as $post): // variable must be called $post (IMPORTANT) ?>
        <?php setup_postdata($post); ?>
        
        // Check if the posts is discontinued or not
        if( get_field('discontinued_field_name') ){
            // Put it in the array for later use.
            $discontinued_posts[] = $post;
            continue;
        }
        
        <li>
            <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
            <span>Custom field from $post: <?php the_field('author'); ?></span>
        </li>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
    
    </ul>
    <?php wp_reset_postdata(); // IMPORTANT - reset the $post object so the rest of the page works correctly ?>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php
// Now we print the discontinued posts
if( $discontinued_posts ): ?>
    <ul>
    
    <?php foreach( $discontinued_posts as $post): // variable must be called $post (IMPORTANT) ?>
        <?php setup_postdata($post); ?>
        <li>
            <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
            <span>Custom field from $post: <?php the_field('author'); ?></span>
        </li>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
    
    </ul>
    <?php wp_reset_postdata(); // IMPORTANT - reset the $post object so the rest of the page works correctly ?>
<?php endif; ?>

I hope this helps 🙂