Reply To: Numberposts & Meta Query Not Working

• DaddyDeux

• March 19, 2018 at 10:46 pm

To clarify further, the whole code snippet is as follows:

  $relatedCat = get_field('service_related_industry');
     $args = array (
		'posts_per_page' => 3,
                'post_type' => 'case_study',
		'meta_query' => array(
			array(
        		'key' => 'cs_industry',
				'value' => $relatedCat,
				'compare' => 'LIKE',
				)
			),
		'orderby' => 'DESC',
      );
	 if (!$relatedCat) { 
		 $relatedCat = get_field('service_related_category');
		 unset ($args);
     	 $args = array (
        	'posts_per_page' => 3,
        	'cat' => $relatedCat,
        	'orderby' => 'DESC',
      	 );
	 }

If I comment out the first line, the IF statement works perfectly, and in fact it also adjusts the number of posts correctly. So, I reckon the problem is in the way the first field (service_related_industry) is being handled. But I can’t quite figure out what’s going wrong.