I am trying to retrieve fields from the attorney custom post type and place them on the on the author.php page template.
I grabbed the loop from this article http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/querying-relationship-fields/
I have a custom post type named attorney where I am selecting a user through the User Relationship field. It properly stores the author ID into the database.
From the article above, I should be able to compare the author ID that is stored from the custom field with the author ID passed through get_the_author(‘ID’) function on the author.php page template. I think the problem has something to do with my custom field not being populated with the proper variable.
I can echo the author ID just fine.
The loop processes just fine when I change LIKE to NOT LIKE so I know it works.
That leaves me to believe I am not grabbing the custom field value from vbmmp_attorney_related_user_profile
Here is my function that is placed on the author.php page template.
Thanks for the help!
add_action('genesis_after_header','vbmmp_display_author_name');
function vbmmp_display_author_name() {
$author_id = get_the_author_meta('ID');
echo $author_id; // This shows me that the function above is grabbing a single value
global $post;
$items = get_posts(array(
'post_type' => 'attorney',
'posts_per_page' => -1,
'meta_query' => array(
array(
'key' => 'vbmmp_attorney_related_user_profile', // name of custom field
'value' => '"' . $author_id . '"', // matches exaclty "123", not just 123. This prevents a match for "1234"
'compare' => 'LIKE'
)
)
));
echo '<ul>';
foreach( $items as $item ):
echo '<li>';
echo get_the_post_thumbnail($item->ID, 'author-avatar', array( 'class' => 'author-image' ) );
echo '<h1 class="archive-title" itemprop="headline">'.get_the_title( $item->ID ).'</h1>';
echo '</li>';
endforeach;
echo '</ul>';
}
