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I’m quite new to ACF…sorry for my ignorance!
I’m trying to write a query to display only posts where the field “Type” contains a certain value in a Select field.
I’ve tried this:
$args = array(
'meta_key' => 'type',
'meta_value' => 'Small'
);
But it doesn’t work. What am I missing?
Does the select field allow multiple selections?
If it does then you need to do a “LIKE” query.
'meta_compare' => 'LIKE'
By value settings, I assume you mean “what’s in the Choices” field?
There is no choice value of “Small”, so your query should not return any posts.
Yeah I know…I just used “small” in my example. My actual code I’m using is
$args = array(
'meta_key' => 'type',
'meta_value' => 'Litigation'
);
What does the rest of your query look like. I don’t see any reason that this should not be working.
Did the field originally allow multiple selections and then changed to only allow 1?
Thanks for your help John…just hearing that what I had should work in theory was what I needed to look elsewhere. I realized that I was missing the specification of what type of posts to query, like
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'service',
'meta_key' => 'type',
'meta_value' => 'Litigation'
);
Which works perfectly now. Cheers!
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