bug? checkbox fields in custom queries

• tille

• December 19, 2017 at 10:56 pm

I know this has been asked before – but I’m still puzzled since it seems that some prople managed to get this working while others not.

As the title suggests I need to run a query filtered by conditions set in checkboxes. I now have a unique checkbox for this CPT and I also switched to the true/false checkbox – but nothing helps. My query looks like this:

$plays = get_posts(array(
	'post_type' => 'performance',
	'meta_key'	=> 'the_date',
	'orderby'	=> 'meta_value_num',
	'order'     => 'ASC',
	'posts_per_page'	=> -1,
	'meta_query'     => array(
	  'relation' => 'AND',
		array(
		  'key'        => 'the_date',
		  'compare'    => '>=',
		  'value'      => $today,
		),
		array(
		  'relation' => 'OR',
			array(
				'key' => 'hide_performance',
				'value' => '1',
				'compare' => 'NOT EXISTS',
			),
			array(
				'key' => 'hide_performance',
				'value' => '1',
				'compare' => '!=',
			),
		),
	  ),
	
));

the strange thing is, I don’t seem to get anything from the checkbox – even if I just want to output the value like

echo ( get_field('auffuhrung_verstecken') );

or like this:

print_r ( get_field('auffuhrung_verstecken') );

I have both the latest installations for WP (4.9.1) and ACF (5.6.7)

thank you very much
kind regards
t

• tille

• December 20, 2017 at 3:31 am

I solved it – turned out the CPT was ‘corrupt’ and didn’t accept any news fields. On the backend everything looked ok, but i couldn’t get any data from whatever new field. So I added a new almost identical CPT, moved everything over and – voilà – it worked.