Reply To: Querying a repater field where a value is NOT inside any repater-entry

• John Huebner

• March 24, 2017 at 9:44 am

I gave this some thought when you first posted it, but could not thing of a way to do this then. I can’t say if the way your doing it is efficient or not, but reading it gave me an idea for the only way that it might be done using only wp_query.

First do a query to find any post that has that post ID, then do a query to get any post not in that list

// your original query args created before here
$result = new WP_Query($args);
$post__not_in = array();
if (count($result->posts)) {
  $post__not_in = wp_list_pluck($results->posts, 'ID');
}
// args for new query
$args = array(
  'post_type' => 'your-post-type',
  'posts_per_page' => -1,
  'post__not_in' => $posts__not_in
)
$final_results = new WP_Query($args);