Query Posts By Custom Field Value Not Working

• svsdnb

• April 15, 2014 at 5:50 am

I am able to query by meta_key but when I introduce the meta_value then nothing shows in the query.

The following code works:

<?php
	$listingPages = get_posts( 
    array(
        'meta_key' => 'select_attorney_type',
        'post_type' => 'page',
        'post_status' => 'publish',
        'orderby' => 'menu_order',
        'order' => 'ASC',
	'posts_per_page' => '20',
	'paged' => ( get_query_var('paged') ? get_query_var('paged') : 1 ),
    )
);	

	foreach( $listingPages as $page ) {		
		$content = $page->post_content;
		if ( ! $content ) // Check for empty page
			continue;

		$content = apply_filters( 'the_content', $content );
	?>

		
		<div class="attyrow">
		<div class="attycol1">
		<a href="<?php echo get_page_link( $page->ID ); ?>"><?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($page->ID, 'thumbnail'); ?></a>
		</div>

		<div class="attycol2">
		<h2><a href="<?php echo get_page_link( $page->ID ); ?>"><?php echo $page->post_title; ?></a></h2>
		</div>

		<div class="attycol3">
		<h3><?php $key="Location"; echo get_post_meta($page->ID, $key, true); ?></h3>
		</div>

		<div class="attycol4">
		<h3><?php $key="Type"; echo get_post_meta($page->ID, $key, true); ?></h3>
		</div>

		<div class="attycol5">
		<h4><?php echo get_the_term_list( $page->ID, 'areas', '', ', ', '' ); ?></h4>
		</div>
		
		</div>
		<div style="clear:both"></div>
			<hr>
	<?php
	}	
?>

When I add 'meta_value' => 'Partner',

Then the page query comes back blank.

I’ve tried my way and the suggested way in the documentation with no luck. Any help?

• emcniece

• April 16, 2014 at 9:54 am

There’s something fishy going on right now, and we’re having some straaange issues over here as well.

Try adjusting your meta_key value to field_select_attorney_type and see what happens.