Query posts by custom fields Pagination not Working

• Adru

• November 12, 2017 at 4:05 am

hi
The idea: i want to show posts with normal pagination based on user role and ACF
Ex. if the user has a role of “student” only show posts with the checkbox student checked in.

My code so far:

$user_roles = array(); //initiate an empty user role array
foreach($current_user->roles as $key => $value) {
   array_push($user_roles, $value);
 }
   // query the posts by custom field only for non admin user roles
   if(!in_array('administrator', $user_roles)) {
   $meta_query = array('relation'=> 'OR');
   foreach($user_roles as $role){
    	array_push($meta_query, array(
		'key' => 'role_access',
		'value' => $role,
		'compare' => 'LIKE'
    		));
   }
   $args['meta_query'] = $meta_query;
   $q = new WP_Query($args);
   if ($q->have_posts()) :
      while ( $q->have_posts() ) : $query->the_post();
         normal custom loop code
      endwhile; 
         default wordpress pagination
      endif; wp_reset_postdata();

OK: everything works fine so far without pagination
Behavior: pagination gets the same posts displayed on page 1 or gets a 404

The general idea is to display posts by user role, tried the members plugin, but only restricts content, i dont want to display the title if the user has no acces to that post.

• gummi

• November 12, 2017 at 8:51 am

Hi,

If you are doing a secondary on a page, you’d need to pass the pagination argument into your WP_Query.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Pagination_Parameters

$paged = ( get_query_var('paged') ) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$query = new WP_Query( array( 'paged' => $paged ) );

Cheers.