problems using ACF field to display specific posts

• envirodefence

• February 13, 2020 at 8:52 am

Hello

I have a custom wordpress post type called featured, and used ACF to add a field called featured_type, I am working on some shortcode to only show specified records

$posts = get_posts(array(
“post_type” => “featured”,
“featured_type” => “about”,
“orderby” => “date”,
“order” => “DESC”,
“posts_per_page” => 6
));

but instead of showing only the posts which are marked about it is showing all, the featured_type field was set up as a checkbox, I am pretty sure I am missing something pretty simple, can anyone point me in the right diection?

Thanks

• cplumley

• February 13, 2020 at 4:22 pm

Envirodefence,

It looks like you need to do a meta_query in your get_posts() function. You can find the docs here: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/query-posts-custom-fields/. Look under the Custom Fields advanced section for an example on how to query a checkbox. Essentially, you will add a query field like so:

'meta_query'	=> array(
			'key'	  	=> 'featured_type',
			'value'	  	=> 'about',
			'compare' 	=> '=',
		),
	),

• envirodefence

• February 13, 2020 at 11:00 pm

thanks, this example and the link should help sort it out