how can get post filter by select item

• pagol

• January 23, 2015 at 7:02 pm

I really like this plug in but I just have one question and hoping someone will help me…

In admin, I added some custom fields. Most of them is text and one option I have select type… It works like a sub category. For example item names will be:
CK
Mango
Zara
Gucci
Nike

Now i would like to have some tabs like Ck, mango, zara etc so when i click the tabs it will automatically open that paticular page.

This is very simple if i use wordpress default category but I would like to use this plug in

Can someone help me to understand how it works

• James

• January 24, 2015 at 12:12 am

Hi @pagol,

One way to achieve this would be: First, have two pages, one to display the Choices/tabs and the other one to display the posts for a particular chioice/tab.

On the template for the page that displays the posts, add the following code:

$value = $_GET['value']; // get value of selected choice.
$args = array(
    ...
    'meta_key' => '<select_field_name>',
    'meta_value' => $value
);
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
... // display posts

Where $value will be the value of the selected choice/tab passed through a query string e.g. The CK tab could open this link http://your-domain.com/page-that-displays-posts/?value=CK

For more info on this, have a look at the following resources:
Filter posts by custom fields,
Creating a WP archive with custom field filter

• pagol

• January 24, 2015 at 5:13 am

thanks for reply. i will and keep update post here. thanksa gain

• pagol

• January 24, 2015 at 3:49 pm

thanks it work fine 🙂 quick and great support

• pagol

• January 25, 2015 at 1:49 am

i have another issue. how can i print selected select box label on page. say like my url is http://your-domain.com/page-that-displays-posts/?value=CK

i want to print on page <h1>CK</h1>

i tried with <h1> <?php echo $value; ?> </h1> i come ok. no problem. but it come CK which is select value. but i want to print label. CK label is CK Sunglass so i want to inside h1 will print selected value lable . is that possible ?

• James

• February 1, 2015 at 5:55 am

Hi @pagol,

Hmm… you could try passing the label as an argument in you query string too i.e.
http://your-domain.com/page-that-display-posts/?value=CK&label=CK Sunglasses

Then grab this value $label = $_GET['label'];