How can I list custom fields from the posts?

• MikSynder

• September 23, 2021 at 1:31 am

I’ve created a Field Group and assigned it to a post template
One of the custom fields in “start_date”
About 150 pages reference this ACF Field Group

Is it possible to create a page that lists all the “start_dates” in a long list?

In other words, is there a way to write some PHP that pulls each of the posts “start_date” and list them on a single page?

So, to give an example:

.com/slug-a/ > “start_date” = 15st October 2021
.com/slug-b/ > “start_date” = 25th November 2021
.com/slug-c/ > “start_date” = 23rd January 2022
.com/slug-d/ > “start_date” = 30th March 2022

Then, in a separate page, I list (loop) these dates with a URL back to slug, so:

.com/events/ and the content would be like this:

Amazing Events List < Header

15st October 2021

25th November 2021

23rd January 2022

30th March 2022

And each of the dates is clickable back to the source post…

• jarvis

• September 23, 2021 at 4:41 am

Hi @miksynder

You would need to query your posts to see if your custom field exists, something like:

<?php
$args = array(
    'post_type'      => array('post', 'page'),
    'posts_per_page' => 10,
    'post_status'    => 'publish',
    'meta_query'     => array(
        'relation' => 'AND',
        array(
            'key'     => 'start_date',
            'compare' => 'EXISTS',
        ),
    ),
);
// query
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );

?>
<?php if( $the_query->have_posts() ): ?>
	<h2>Amazing Events List</h2>
	<ul>
	<?php while( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
	<?php $start_date = get_field('start_date');?>
		<li>
			<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
				<?php if($start_date): echo $start_date; endif; ?>
				<?php the_title(); ?>
			</a>
		</li>
	<?php endwhile; ?>
	</ul>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php wp_reset_query();	 // Restore global post data stomped by the_post(). ?>

• MikSynder

• September 30, 2021 at 7:13 am

Thanks for replying me. This solved my problem.