Reply To: Repeater field returns count of values

• timhoeppner

• March 26, 2019 at 11:53 pm

John,

You are a life saver… I’ve identified it down to my custom theme where I have a pre_get_posts filter. My filter was in place so that I could display custom post types on a category page.

Strange behavior though… When ACF is retrieving the field meta data it is being identified as a category is_category() == true. What I noticed is that the meta query doesn’t have a category name so I just added a check for that and everything is happy now.

Any idea why the custom field query is being identified as a category?

My original filter ($this->customPostTypes has my custom post type names):

if (is_category()) {
      $postType = get_query_var("post_type");

      if (!$postType) {
        $postType = [
          "nav_menu_item",
          "post",
        ];

        foreach ($this->customPostTypes as $customPostTypes) {
          $postType[] = $customPostTypes["type"];
        }
      }

      $query->set("post_type", $postType);
    }

    return $query;

Updated filter:

if (is_category() && isset($query->query["category_name"])) {
      $postType = get_query_var("post_type");

      if (!$postType) {
        $postType = [
          "nav_menu_item",
          "post",
        ];

        foreach ($this->customPostTypes as $customPostTypes) {
          $postType[] = $customPostTypes["type"];
        }
      }

      $query->set("post_type", $postType);
    }

    return $query;