How to also get ACF fields from a get_post loop

• kensley.lewis

• August 3, 2018 at 1:13 am

I have the following code to get posts, which are part of a specific category. All these posts have the same ACF fields on them too…

//BUILD THE LOOP AND LOAD THE POSTS
function ithub_exec_summary_landing_loop() {

//DEFINE OUTPUT VAR
$out = '';

//LOOP - GET AL EXECUTIVE SUMMARIES VIA GET_POSTS()
$args = array(
	'numberposts' => -1,
	'orderby' => 'modified',
	'order'   => 'ASC',
	'category_name' => 'executive-summary'
	);
	$mExecSumPosts = get_posts($args);
	//REFERENCE LOOP FOR PREVIEWING REVISIONS
	if ($mExecSumPosts) {
		foreach ($mExecSumPosts as $post):
			setup_postdata($post);
			//DEFINE LOOP VARS
			$mtitle = $post->post_title;
			$mpublisheddate = get_the_time('Y-m-d', $post->ID);
			$mformateddate =  date("l F jS, Y",  strtotime($mpublisheddate));
			//OUTPUT DATA
			$out.= "<div class='row'>";
			$out.= "<div class='col'>";
			$out.= "<h3><a href='{$post->post_name}'>{$mtitle}</a> <span class='h5 text-secondary'>: Status Date of {$mpublisheddate}</span></h3>";
			$out.= "</div>";
			$out.= "</div>";
		endforeach;
		wp_reset_postdata();
	}
return $out;
}

…But how do not only get the basic tags of each post from this loop, but also the ACF custom fields found on them? For example, each of these posts has an ACF field called ‘product_owner’, which is a ‘select’ type. I want to display my mutli-select values of product_owner, into this get_post loop. Where do I start?

• kensley.lewis

• August 3, 2018 at 1:45 am

I was able to upgrade the logic of my loop to be manipulated by ACF fields (yeaahh!!!), for example, I can filter the get_post loop by my meta_query of ACF data as shown below…

//BUILD THE LOOP AND LOAD THE POSTS
function ithub_exec_summary_landing_loop() {

	//DEFINE OUTPUT VAR
	$out = '';

	//LOOP - GET AL EXECUTIVE SUMMARIES VIA GET_POSTS()
	$args = array(
		'numberposts' => -1,
		'orderby' => 'modified',
		'order'   => 'ASC',
		'category_name' => 'executive-summary',
		'meta_query' => array(
			'relation' => 'OR',
			array(
				'key' => 'product_owner',
				'value' => 'larry',
				'compare' => 'LIKE'
			),
			array(
			'key' => 'product_owner',
			'value' => 'sally',
			'compare' => 'LIKE'
			),
			array(
			'key' => 'product_owner',
			'value' => 'bob',
			'compare' => 'LIKE'
			)
		)

		);
		$mExecSumPosts = get_posts($args);

		//REFERENCE LOOP FOR PREVIEWING REVISIONS
		if ($mExecSumPosts) {
			foreach ($mExecSumPosts as $post):
				setup_postdata($post);
				//DEFINE LOOP VARS
				$mtitle = $post->post_title;
				$mpublisheddate = get_the_time('Y-m-d', $post->ID);
				$mformateddate =  date("l F jS, Y",  strtotime($mpublisheddate));
				//OUTPUT DATA
				$out.= "<div class='row'>";
				$out.= "<div class='col'>";
				$out.= "<h3><a href='{$post->post_name}'>{$mtitle}</a> <span class='h5 text-secondary'>: Status Date of {$mpublisheddate} | </span></h3>";
				$out.= "</div>";
				$out.= "</div>";
			endforeach;
		}
	return $out;
}
wp_reset_postdata();
}

…But! How can I output the product owner name (larry, sally, or bob) in this get_posts loop, for each post that is loaded? I have a feeling I may need to create a second get_posts() loop, but don’t know what that looks like from this point forward. Any help would be awesome!

• kensley.lewis

• August 3, 2018 at 3:05 am

Solved my issue. I needed to also add

$mproductowners = get_post_meta($post->ID,'product_owner',false);

to properly get ACF data from my existing get_posts() loop. From here, I was able to traverse the array and output either larry, sally or bob.