If this ACF field is True, then show 5 posts

• qmanning

• November 19, 2013 at 4:49 am

I’m new to dealing with ACF & WordPress, so my apologies for any boneheadedness which may be present here.

Trying to find the easiest way to do the following:

* Check the category “case-studies” (id=224)
* See whether the ACF True/False field “hp_slider” is “true”
* Show the first 5 posts that match these criteria, and format with the specific values

My big issue is that I can get WP to show either the first of such posts, or to show all posts, regardless of whether or not it has the “hp_slider” field set to true or false.

here is the code I’m using, and I realize that it may be woefully wrong & convoluted. Any help is immensely appreciated:
<?php if(get_field('hp_slider') == true) : ?>
<?php query_posts('cat=224&showposts=5&order=DESC&orderby=post_date'); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
Here is some html/css…

<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

• qmanning

• November 19, 2013 at 5:26 am

This is how I got it working, if this is a terrible solution, please, let me know 🙂

<?php 
			 
// args
$args = array(
	'numberposts' => 1,
	'meta_key' => 'hp_slider',
	'meta_type' => 'BINARY',
	'meta_value' => "1"
);
			 
// get results
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
		 
// The Loop
?>
<?php if( $the_query->have_posts() ): ?>

	<?php while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
    HTML CODE
	<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

• Jonathan

• November 19, 2013 at 7:33 am

That should only give you 1 post?

You can also do this:

$args = array(
	'numberposts' => 5,
	'meta_key' => 'hp_slider',
	'meta_compare' => '=',
	'meta_value' => "1"
);