query posts with repeater field

• pnoeric

• October 9, 2013 at 7:43 am

Hi, I love your plugin and I’ve purchased the repeater field add-on. However, I’m struggling with getting all custom post types that match a field in a repeater field.

In other words, I have a post type “writers” with two fields, “location” which is a normal field, and “genre” which is a repeater field.

I need to retrieve all writers with location = Los Angeles and genre = mystery, so I tried this:

$p2 = get_posts(array(
	'numberposts' => -1,
	'post_type' => 'writers',
	'meta_key' => 'location',
	'meta_value' => 'los-angeles',
	'meta_query' => (array('key' => 'genre', value => 'mystery'))
));

…but that didn’t work. Is there a way to use get_posts to query repeater fields?

• Elliot

• October 9, 2013 at 10:26 am

Hi @pnoeric

the meta_query argument does not work like this.

To query sub field data, you need to follow this tutorial here:
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/tutorials/querying-the-database-for-repeater-sub-field-values/

Thanks
E