Display all pages that share a custom field value

• NilsDannemann

• July 16, 2018 at 2:17 am

Hi,

I have a page template that has a dropdown custom field.

I’d like to display all published pages that share the same value in the dropdown field.

Example:

Page 1 – published – dropdown-field-value: “AAA”
Page 2 – published – dropdown-field-value: “BBB”
Page 3 – published – dropdown-field-value: “CCC”
Page 4 – draft – dropdown-field-value: “AAA”
Page 5 – published – dropdown-field-value: “AAA”

The query should display the pages 1 & 5

Can anyone push me in the right direction?
Thanks a lot!

• HQ80

• July 16, 2018 at 3:58 am

This should help push you in the right direction.
https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/query-posts-custom-fields/

• NilsDannemann

• July 20, 2018 at 5:58 am

Hi HQ80,

thank you, this brought me a big step forward.

I got all pages displayed that share a dropdown-field-value.
Unfortunately now I’m struggling with the ordering.

To be more concrete:
– I got 6 pages that are part of a series
– In the ACF-Template of these pages I have:
— a dropdown for the series they belong to (dropdown field)
— a dropdown for the prev page in the series (page field)
— a dropdown for the next page in the series (page field)
Image:

As stated above I got all pages displayed that share a series.
But for the ordering: How can I display in the correct order?

My current code looks like this:

<?php 
			$posts = get_posts(array(
				'posts_per_page'	=> -1,
				'post_type'			=> 'page',
				'meta_value'		=> 'series1',
			));

			if( $posts ): ?>
				<ul class="list list--styled">
				<?php foreach( $posts as $post ): 
					setup_postdata( $post );
					?>
					<li>
						<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
						    <div><?php the_field('title_short'); ?></div>
				    	</a>
					</li>
				<?php endforeach; ?>
				</ul>
				<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
			<?php endif; ?>