Exclude posts from loop based on custom field

• Jason K

• April 4, 2019 at 8:57 pm

I’m getting myself tied up in knots here! I’m using a loop to list company staff members. The loop is filtering by a particular sub-field value ‘exec’ and then ordering by another custom field ‘staff_order_name’. It’s all working perfectly – this is what I have so far:

$posts = get_posts(array(
	'post_type' => 'staff',
	'posts_per_page' => -1,
	'meta_query' => [
		[
			'key' => 'staff_role_info_staff_type',
			'compare' => 'LIKE',
			'value' => 'exec'
		],
	],
	'meta_key' => 'staff_order_name',
	'orderby' => 'meta_value',
	'order' => 'ASC'
));

What I need to do now is to simply exclude posts from the loop that have another custom field ‘staff_priority’ filled in. Thanks in advance.