Custom field filter for archive page

• uakz

• February 25, 2014 at 7:47 am

I am absolutely beginner to PHP and looking for some help. I am trying to create a restaurant directory where I was able to get the output to display under each post in category page using:
Options: <?php echo implode(' | ', get_field('field_options')); ?>

I am using below acf (checkboxes)
Options:
out : Outdoor
wifi : WIFI Available
smoke : Smoking Area

Now all I need is to add a group of checkbox fields to my category page to filter the posts by above options.

I tried to follow “Creating a WP archive with custom field filter” tutorial but the method used was radio buttons.

I would really appreciative if I can know what exactly to put in function.php file and category.php file.

Attached image will tell you what exactly I am trying to achieve.

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• Elliot

• February 25, 2014 at 10:30 am

Hi @uakz

Creating a checkbox input is very similar to creating a radio input. Please checkout some online tutorials to learn more about this.

I would love to help, but this question is far from a support issue, so I am unable to pride any support for this.

Good luck creating your custom page, and please feel free to ask any specific ACF related questions.

Thanks
E

• uakz

• March 5, 2014 at 6:54 am

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• Elliot

• March 7, 2014 at 9:59 am

Hi @uakz

The tutorial in question shows a lot of complicated code, which I do no offer my services to login and debug.

Please debug your code line by line to ensure all variables and values are as expected.

Many plugins / theme code can modify and cause issues with the posts returned by a WP_Query, so perhaps it is possible that another source is causing no posts to be found.

Most likely, it is a logic error in the code you have written that is causing the WP_Query to find no posts.

Thanks
E

• uakz

• March 7, 2014 at 5:37 pm

Thanks Elliot,

I did a clean install and everything seems to be working now. Please help me with only one thing.

I replaced radio buttons to check boxes from ACF, resulting, I can choose more than one bedroom for a house.

For example, I have
House 1 : Checkbox 1 selected
House 2 : Checkbox 2 selected
House 3 : Checkbox 3 and checkbox 1 selected

Now form archive page, when I select checkbox 1, I only see House 1, where I should be getting House 3 as well.

Could you be kind enough to tell me where/what to add/replace the code?

Thanks

• Elliot

• March 12, 2014 at 9:33 am

Hi @uakz

Sorry, but I am unavailable for these kinds of questions. I’m glad you have got your code working, but you will need to write the custom logic yourself.

Thanks
E