Featured Post using Checkbox

• Spen

• November 5, 2015 at 5:50 am

Hello there,

I would like to be able to display featured posts only by using a checkbox to switch it on / off.

My checkbox custom field only has one choice: Display.

The custom field name is: feature_on_home

How can I modify the following query to include this so that only posts in which the checkbox is ticked will be displayed?

<?php $loop = new WP_Query( 
	array( 
		'post_type' => 'news', 
		'posts_per_page' => 3 ) 
	); 
?>
<?php while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); ?>
        // Content
<?php endwhile; ?>

Thanks for all and any help.

Spencer

• John Huebner

• November 5, 2015 at 1:51 pm

something like

<?php $loop = new WP_Query( 
	array( 
		'post_type' => 'news', 
		'posts_per_page' => 3,
		'meta_key' => 'feature_on_home',
		'meta_value' => '1' ) 
	); 
?>

• Spen

• November 6, 2015 at 12:16 am

Hi,

Thanks for getting back – oddly, this now displays nothing now.

I have ticked three items to test, but nowt.

Any idea?

Thanks a million,

Spencer

• John Huebner

• November 6, 2015 at 12:33 am

you said checkbox so I was assuming a true false field, is that correct? if not change the meta_value to the value that’s saved by your checkbox field