Reply To: Get posts by ACF if not exists

• John Huebner

• April 29, 2017 at 8:25 am

you’ve specified a meta key, but not a value

$new_args = [

    'post_type'      => 'news',
    'post_status'    => 'publish',
    'fields'         => 'ids',
    'posts_per_page' => '5',
    'meta_key'       => 'is_featured',
    'meta_value'     => '1',
    'orderby'        => 'meta_value_num', // not sure that this does
    'order'          => 'desc'
];  
$news = new WP_Query($new_args);

Either that or you need to use a meta_query parameter. https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Custom_Field_Parameters. You need to test for the value and you need to test that the value exists. See the “compare” argument.

  'meta_query' => array(
    array(
      'key' => 'is_featured',
      'compare' => 'EXISTS'
    ),
    array(
      'key' => 'is_featured',
      'value' => '1'
    ),
  ),