You have a great guide here on filtering data based on Advanced Custom Fields in the database: http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/how-to/how-to-query-posts-filtered-by-custom-field-values/
But I ran into something a bit weird when trying to work through the examples.
I have a checkbox custom field for different regions of the world. And I used the alternative syntax you offered up to have a different value and label. Like this: “china : China”.
If I then try to follow the first example on the above page and pull posts out of the database based on a region and its value, it won’t work.
'meta_key' => 'region',
'meta_value' => 'china',
Not happening.
Looking in the database, that meta_key is actually saved differently.
It looks like this:
a:1:{i:0;s:5:"china";}
If I then try to pull from the database using that meta_value, it works.
Any thoughts?
I’m a fool. That’s why you’re allowed to scroll in these modern, new-fangled browsers.
Sorry!
