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  • Working on a custom shortcode function inside functions.php that would display a ‘speakers’ post-type, with ‘featured_speaker’ ACF-checkbox and in a specific order set by ACF select-element ‘speaker_order’. But the custom shortcode does not display anything. I’ve checked the code many times but I can’t spot what I’m doing incorrectly.

    add_shortcode( 'featured_speakers', 'custom_speakers' );
    
    function custom_speakers() {
    
        $args = array(
            'post_type' => 'speaker',
            'posts_per_page' => -1,
            'post_status' => 'publish',
    		  'meta_query' => array(
    			  		'relation' => 'AND',
    					array(
    						'key'	  	=> 'featured_speaker',
    						'value'	  	=> '1',
    						'compare' 	=> '=',
    					),
    					array(
    						'key' => 'speaker_order',
    						'orderby' => 'meta_value',
    						'order' => DESC,
    					),
    
    				),
            );
    
        $query = new WP_Query( $args );
    
        $out = '';
    
        $out .= '<div class="full_section_inner">';
    
        if ( $query->have_posts() ) {
            // The Loop
            while ( $query->have_posts() ) {
    			  $out .= '<div class="vc_col-sm-3">';
    					$out .= '<div class="wpb_single_image">';
    						 $out .= '<a href="'.get_field('speaker_link').'" target="_blank">';
    							  $out .= '<div class="vc_single_image-wrapper vc_box_border_circle  vc_box_border_grey">';
    									//$out .= '<img width="150" height="150" src="http://growcommerce.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/0c02f46-150x150.jpg" class="vc_single_image-img attachment-thumbnail" alt="Miki Beradelli, CEO, Kidbox" srcset="http://growcommerce.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/0c02f46-150x150.jpg 150w, http://growcommerce.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/0c02f46.jpg 296w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px">';
    							  $out .= get_the_post_thumbnail( get_the_ID(), 'thumbnail' );
    							  $out .= '</div>';
    						 $out .= '</a>';
    					$out .= '</div>';
    					$out .= '<div class="separator transparent"></div>';
    					$out .= '<div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element ">';
    						 $out .= '<div class="wpb_wrapper">';
    							  $out .= '<p style="text-align: center;">';
    									$out .= '<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/miki-racine-berardelli-b0022b3/" target="_blank">';
    										 $out .= '<span style="color: #ffffff;">'.get_the_title().'</span>';
    									$out .= '</a>';
    							  $out .= '
    ';
    							  $out .= '<p style="text-align: center;">';
    									$out .= '<a href="'.get_field('speaker_link').'" target="_blank">';
    										 $out .= '<span style="color: #ffffff;">'.get_field('company').'</span>';
    									$out .= '</a>';
    							  $out .= '
    ';
    						 $out .= '</div>';
    					$out .= '</div>';
    					$out .= '<div class="separator transparent"></div>';
    			  $out .= '</div>';
            }
    
            wp_reset_postdata();
        }
    
        $out .= '</div>';
    
        return $out;
    }
  • You’re missing 2 things. Since your running this inside a function you need to declare the global $post variable.

    
    function custom_speakers() {
      global $post;
    

    The second is that you’re not calling the_post()

    
     while ( $query->have_posts() ) {
      $query->the_post();
    
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