Reply To: Calling Users with meta_query and an ACF checkbox field

• John Huebner

• November 15, 2017 at 12:48 am

Checkbox fields store serialized arrays and do not store the values in standard WP meta fields that can be searched using ‘IN’.

You need to use “LIKE”

array(
  'key' => 'department',
  'value' => '"Social Work"',
  'compare' => 'LIKE',
)