Query posts by taxonomy field

• koiastudio

• June 4, 2018 at 9:44 am

May I query posts by taxonomy field as one would do for a checkbox field, for example?

I don’t wish to activated Load or Save terms in the taxonomy field (as I don’t need the extra classes created by post_class function) and was trying to query the posts with meta_query and not tax_query. Possible?

I haven’t been to get it working.

My code:

'meta_query' => array(
                   'relation' => 'OR',
		   array(
		      'key' => 'project-fields',
		      'value' => 'architecture',
		      'compare' => 'LIKE',
                    ),
		    array(
		       'key' => 'project-fields',
		       'value' => 'research',
		       'compare' => 'LIKE',
		    ),
		 ),

Thanks.

• John Huebner

• June 4, 2018 at 10:12 pm

If you are not saving and loading terms then you must use a meta_query. But, ACF stores the term ID of each term selected, not the term name. And you’re like value needs to look something like '"'.$term_id.'"' because ACF stores a serialized array for the selected terms.