I am attempting to display blog posts based on tags. The base code was initially:
<?php $the_query = new WP_Query( array( ‘tag’ => ‘great-expressions’,’posts_per_page’ => 5 ) ); ?>
<?php if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : ?>
<?php while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
<p>“><?php the_title(); ?></p>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
I created a custom field where you can input the tag name:
blog_post_tags
I’m not sure how to add the get_field function to the array for ‘tag’ – so that it will pull the text from the custom field.
<?php $the_query = new WP_Query( array( ‘tag’ => ‘great-expressions’,’posts_per_page’ => 5 ) ); ?>
I’m a novice to this kind of thing, so please excuse my naivete. Any help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, in advance!
Hi @greghoffman
You can store the field value in a variable and then pass this variable in your query like so:
<?php
$value = get_field('field_name');
$the_query = new WP_Query(
array(
‘tag’ => $value,
’posts_per_page’ => 5
)
);
?>
Thank you so much! That worked perfectly!
