Reply To: WP_Query with meta_query on a subfield within a group field

• meandhim

• November 25, 2017 at 4:20 am

Hey Julius,

I’ve read a bit more about group fields and the key doesn’t act the same as a repeater.

$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.'"'
        ],
    ],
]);

In the second paragraph of the overview for group it says the database saves the result as group_field so in your case it is authors_people. As the people field is a multi select and holding an array of people IDs (I would have thought) then the LIKE comparator should be fine.

Try the above and let me know what you get.