So, I have a custom post type called “locations”. In each “location” I ask for their facebook ID. I need to grab all facebook IDs from each published location and output them, separated by commas, for a multifeed display.
This multifeed is in my site footer, so I can’t limit this to an archive page.
Help?
You need to query all of the locations posts, loop through them and get the values.
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'locations',
'posts_per_page' => -1
)
$query = new WP_Query($args);
$facebook_ids = array();
if ($query->have_posts()) {
while($query->have_post()) {
$query->the_post();
$facebook_ids[] = get_field('facebook_id');
}
wp_reset_postdata()
}
echo implode(',', $facebook_ids);
Nope. This didn’t solve it (and there were some missing closing semi-colons).
I also tried with “explode” instead of “implode” and it didn’t work.
Here’s my current code:
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'locations',
'posts_per_page' => -1
);
$query = new WP_Query($args);
$facebook_ids = array();
if ($query->have_posts()) {
while($query->have_post()) {
$query->the_post();
$facebook_ids[] = get_field('facebook_group_name');
}
wp_reset_postdata();
}
echo explode(',', $facebook_ids);
sorry about the typos, what are the results of this, anything?
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'locations',
'posts_per_page' => -1
);
$query = new WP_Query($args);
$facebook_ids = array();
if ($query->have_posts()) {
while($query->have_post()) {
$query->the_post();
$facebook_ids[] = get_field('facebook_group_name');
}
wp_reset_postdata();
}
echo implode(',', $facebook_ids);
Is the post type slug correct? 'post_type' => 'locations' Either the query is not returning any posts or there are no values stored for that field name.
It is correct, and I’ve double-checked to see that the 3 posts in that CPT each do have that field filled out.
So then this query should return 3 posts
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'locations',
'posts_per_page' => -1
);
$query = new WP_Query($args);
// output posts to see if they are returned by the query
echo '<pre>'; print_r($query->posts); echo '</pre>';
Where is this code running? In a template, or in a function.
try adding
if ($query->have_posts()) {
global $post; // try adding this here
while($query->have_post()) {
what kind of field is ‘facebook_group_name’ agian?
Then that shouldn’t be it.
What happens when you do this?
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'locations',
'posts_per_page' => -1
);
$query = new WP_Query($args);
$facebook_ids = array();
if ($query->have_posts()) {
while($query->have_post()) {
$query->the_post();
echo get_field('facebook_group_name').'<br />';
$facebook_ids[] = get_field('facebook_group_name');
}
wp_reset_postdata();
}
echo implode(',', $facebook_ids);
facebook_group_name is a simple text field.
The most recent code you provided displays zip, zero, zilch, nada.
k, so there’s an obvious typo in my code, proof that the brain sees what you expect to see since I missed it at least 4 times. Tell me if you can spot the difference
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'locations',
'posts_per_page' => -1
);
$query = new WP_Query($args);
$facebook_ids = array();
if ($query->have_posts()) {
while($query->have_posts()) {
$query->the_post();
echo get_field('facebook_group_name').'<br />';
$facebook_ids[] = get_field('facebook_group_name');
}
wp_reset_postdata();
}
echo implode(',', $facebook_ids);
D’OH!!! A missing ‘S’!! That did it! Thank you! Can’t believe I didn’t see it either. I had to look HARD for that one! LOL
