Ordering a Relationship Field

• andycheeseman

• June 9, 2015 at 6:31 am

Hi,

I’m trying to return a relationship field that has some ‘active testimonials’ in it, but in a random order. I can use a ‘get_posts’ array to define the order as being random, but this bypasses the relationship field altogether and shows a randomised list of ALL the testimonials (not just the ones in the relationship field).

Can anyone please suggest how I would go about limiting the array to just the items in the relationship field?

http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/orde-posts-by-custom-fields/

$posts = get_posts(array(
            'post_type'     => 'testimonial',
            'posts_per_page'  => -1,
            'orderby'     => 'rand'
          ));

Many thanks,
Andy.

• John Huebner

• June 9, 2015 at 8:06 am

Set your relationship field to return an array of post IDs and then Use post__in.

$related = get_field('relationship_field');
$posts = get_posts(array(
    'post_type'     => 'testimonial',
    'posts_per_page'  => -1,
    'orderby'     => 'rand',
    'post__in' => $related
));