I am having a hard time with something and hoping I can get a little assistance. Here is my goal:
I have a web site where we put on multiple Events in various locations which inlcude Artist Instructors (primarily musicians) which change every year. We want to be able to provide a page where someone can go and see who taught at each location/year combo. Or to filter the list. I believe I need to do the following to make this work:
- Have a Primary “Festival” page which has some information which can be over-written each year. Include metadata via ACF for the Location (A Clone field from the Overview post below so I do not have to edit Locations in multiple places) and the current Year (date picker formatted as YYYY only) we are registering people for.
- Have a Post for each Artist wich is a Biography and includes an ACF field for their “Instrument”
- Have an Overview Post which includes detailed information for teh current Year and a Repeater field for selecting Post Objects for the Biographies. I am using the Repeater field so we can set the Order in which the Biographies appear. This Overview post has ACF fields for
- Location
- Start Date (date picker)
- End Date (date picker)
- Artists (Repeater with a Post Object Subfield called Artist)
So Iam trying to create a Template for the Main Page. I can pull the appropriate Overview Post, but I am not getting the Artist Posts (Biographies) to display. I get the Title as a link for the First of Three in the list. After that I get 23 listings with no Title/Link and only the text for teh custom field with no entry (actually a foreach error but that is likely because some other data is being returned). Any idea where I may be off on this?
Code:
<?php
/**
* The template for displaying the primary festival location pages
*
* Template Name: Festival Main
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage Boxwood\\
* @since Twenty Twelve 1.0
*/
get_header();
?>
<div id="container">
<div id="content">
<div id="main-column-full-width">
<?php /* The entry content */ ?>
<div class="entry-content">
<?php if(!is_front_page()) {?>
<?php if ( function_exists('yoast_breadcrumb') ) {
yoast_breadcrumb('<p id="breadcrumbs">','</p>');
} ?>
<h1 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<?php }?>
<?php
if (have_posts()) :
while (have_posts()) :
the_post();
the_content();
endwhile;
endif;
?>
<h1>Start Latest</h1>
<?php
/**
* Get the Overview Post to pull data for retrieving other posts, etc
*/
$my_location = get_field('location_location');
$my_year = get_field('year');
$startyear = $my_year . '0000';
$endyear = $my_year + 1 . '0000';
$args = array(
'numberposts' => -1,
'post_type' => 'post',
'category_name' => 'festival-overview',
'meta_query' => array(
array(
'key' => 'location',
'value' => $my_location,
),
array(
'key' => 'start_date',
'value' => $startyear,
'compare' => '>'
),
array(
'key' => 'start_date',
'value' => $endyear,
'compare' => '<'
)
)
);
$overview_posts = new WP_Query( $args );
// Show the Overview Post content
if ( $overview_posts->have_posts() ) :
while ( $overview_posts->have_posts() ) :
$overview_posts->the_post();
// Check rows exists.
if( have_rows('artists') ):
// Loop through rows.
while( have_rows('artists') ) : the_row();
// Load sub field value.
$featured_posts = get_sub_field('artist');
if( $featured_posts ): ?>
<ul>
<?php foreach( $featured_posts as $post ):
// Setup this post for WP functions (variable must be named $post).
setup_postdata($post); ?>
<li>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
<span>A custom field from this post:
<?php
$my_instrumentsarray = get_field('intruments');
foreach ($my_instrumentsarray as $my_instrument) {
echo $my_instrument ;
} ?>
</span>
</li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
<?php
// Reset the global post object so that the rest of the page works correctly.
// wp_reset_postdata();
endif;
endwhile;
endif;
endwhile;
while ( $overview_posts->have_posts() ) :
$overview_posts->the_post();
if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) :
the_post_thumbnail();
endif;
?>
<div class="entry-content">
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>
</article>
<?php
endwhile;
endif;
// Restore original post data.
wp_reset_postdata();
?>
</div><!-- .entry-content -->
</div><!-- #main-column-full-width -->
</div>
</div><!-- #container -->
<?php get_footer(); ?>
Try using
$overview_posts->reset_postdata();
To reset postdata after your featured posts loop. You currently have that line commented out and using the wrong function.
