Featured post through true/false field

• physalis

• December 19, 2013 at 12:00 pm

Hello there,

I was looking for a way to have a featured posts checkbox (via true/false field) on a certain category’s posts edit window. I already found http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/field-types/true-false/ and a stackoverflow thread that handles exactly that, only I don’t get any output from that code which I modified to suit the true/false field. Anyone able to help me along?

The task is simple. Show the latest ‘featured’ post at the top and all other posts below, skipping the one already featured on top. This is my code I have so far, looking good, but not putting anything out as of yet.

<?php function featured() {
$featured = new WP_Query(array(
    'meta_query' => array(
        array(
            'key' => 'featured',
            'value' => '1',
            'compare' => '=='
            )
        ),
    'posts_per_page' => 1
    ));

while ( $featured->have_posts() ) : $featured -> the_post(); 
$do_not_duplicate = get_the_ID(); ?>
<article class="grid_6 push_1 featured" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
	<h5><?php the_title(); ?></h5>
	<div class="news_date"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_time('d.m.Y'); ?> / Weiterlesen</a></div>
	<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('snippet'); ?></a>
</article>
<?php 
endwhile;
if(have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
if (get_the_ID() == $do_not_duplicate) continue;
    ?>
<article class="grid_2 post_item" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
	<h5><?php the_title(); ?></h5>
	<div class="news_date"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_time('d.m.Y'); ?> / Weiterlesen</a></div>
	<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('snippet'); ?></a>
</article>
    <?php 
    endwhile;
endif;
} ?>

Thanks in advance ;).

Best

physalis

• Elliot

• December 22, 2013 at 4:04 pm

Hi @physalis

It is most likely that your PW_Query args do not contain a post_Type parameter.
I have a feeling that the post_Type is required to work.

Also try setting the ‘value’ to 1 instead of ‘1’ (int instead of string)

Thanks
E