Hi folks,
I’m using a ‘checkbox’ field type on a post template. It only has one value ‘yes’ but it based around the question ‘Is this a short course?’ with one checkbox field value ‘yes’.
I’m then creating a separate page to list all the posts that have this checkbox ticked; which would list all their titles with their permalinks.
I thought, adapting what the documentation states, would work, but it doesn’t. It seems to set it on a endless while loop. Any ideas?
<?php $courses = get_posts(array(
'meta_query' => array(
array(
'key' => 'short_course', // name of custom field
'value' => '"yes"', // matches exaclty "yes", not just yes. This prevents a match for "acquired"
'compare' => 'LIKE'
)
)
));
if ( $courses ) while ( $courses ) : ?>
test
<?php endwhile; ?>
Hi @rdck
Does your code contains an endif ?
Perhaps it is not the query but a syntax error on the page?
Can you turn on DEBUG MODE in your wp-config.php
Thanks
E
Thanks for the reply @elliot, however, adding the endif; doesn’t solve it. It still is spitting out the word ‘test’ infinitely and crashing the site, rather than what is to be expected.
<?php $courses = get_posts(array(
'meta_query' => array(
array(
'key' => 'short_course', // name of custom field
'value' => '"yes"', // matches exaclty "yes", not just yes. This prevents a match for "acquired"
'compare' => 'LIKE'
)
)
));
if ( $courses ) : while ( $courses ) : ?>
test
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
Hi @rdck
Sorry, I completely missed the issue!
The issue is that you are using a while loop which will never end!
You should be using a foreach!
Example: http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/getting-started/code-examples/#query-posts%20with%20acf%20values
Hi again @elliot
Thanks for your continual help.
My code now stands as this:
<?php $courses = get_posts(array(
'meta_query' => array(
array(
'key' => 'short_course',
'value' => '"yes"',
'compare' => 'LIKE'
)
)
));
if ( $courses ) : foreach ($courses as $course) : ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink($course->ID); ?>">test</a>
<?php endforeach; endif; ?>
But the permalink isn’t bringing back the permalink URL… only the current page URL. Am I missing something?
And I did change
the_permalink($course->ID)
to
get_permalink($course->ID)
But made no difference…
Okay, school boy error, missed the echos 🙁
<a href="<?php echo get_permalink($course->ID); ?>"><?php echo get_the_title($course->ID); ?></a>
Many thanks for the help.
