Custom loop in ACF block

• anybodesign

• December 1, 2020 at 9:26 pm

Hello,

I’m creating a block to display a “workshop” custom post type
Each post has a date custom field and I would like to sort them by date

But I can’t get the value of the field in the block render template with a regular WP loop… I tried a query_post and it’s working but then I can’t sort the results by the date field 🙁

here is my code so far, what am I missing… I guess I have to make a second loop to get the post by my date custom field… but can’t find out how!

					<?php
						$num = get_field('number');
						$cat = get_field('cat');
						//$date = get_field('date');
						
						if ($num) {
							$number = $num;
						} else {
							$number = '-1';
						}
						
						// if ($date) {
						// 	$key = 'date';
						// 	$by = 'meta_value';
						// } else {
						// 	$key = null;
						// 	$by = null;
						// }
						
						$args = array(
							'posts_per_page' 	=> $number,
							'post_type' 		=> 'product',
							//'meta_key'			=> $key,
							//'orderby'			=> $by,
							'order'				=> 'DESC',
							'tax_query' => array(
								array(
									'taxonomy' => 'product_cat',
									'terms' => $cat,
									'field' => 'slug',
								),
							),
						);
						//$products = new WP_Query($args);
						$products = query_posts($args);
						
						foreach ($products as $p) : 
						
							$date = get_field('date', $p->ID);
							
					?>
						<div class="product-block">
							
							<div class="product-figure">
								<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($p->ID, 'screen-md' ); ?>
							</div>
							<p class="product-title h3-like"><?php echo get_the_title($p->ID); ?></p>
							<p><?php echo $date; ?></p>
							
						</div>						
							
					<?php 
						endforeach;
						wp_reset_postdata();
					?>	

• ChrisDark

• December 18, 2020 at 10:37 pm

Hey @anybodesign

You should able to do that via get_posts() too.

The most problem you don’t use the proper order value for that.
I think you want to change the ‘order’ like this:

$posts = get_posts([
	'post_type'		=> 'product',
	...
	'meta_key'      => 'your_date_field',
  	'orderby'       => 'meta_value_num',
]);

The key is the meta_value_num when you order by number / date type of fields