Reply To: Meta query for post object?

• juliusbangert

• November 24, 2017 at 5:11 am

I cannot see where I’m going wrong.. Perhaps it’s relation in the meta_query ? Here is what I have now.

In my function.php

function my_posts_where( $where ) {
    global $wpdb;
    $where = str_replace(
        "meta_key = 'authors_",
        "meta_key LIKE 'authors_",
        $wpdb->remove_placeholder_escape( $where )
    );
    return $where;
}
add_filter( 'posts_where', 'my_posts_where' );

And on my archive-images.php ….

$author = 85; // This will eventuall be pulled from get_query_var('author')
$images_query = new WP_Query([
    'suppress_filters' => FALSE,
    'posts_per_page' => -1,
    'post_type' => 'images',
    'meta_query' => [
        //'relation' => 'OR',
        //'relation' => 'AND',
        [
            'key' => 'authors_%_people',
            'compare' => 'LIKE',
            'value' => '"'.$author.'"',
        ],
    ],
]);

What am I doing wrong?