I’m trying to create a custom query in my template file that shows all posts that are by any other author than the ones I specify. It’s set up to do the query against an ACF Relationship field that connects an author with a post. I have reworked this from a custom query that shows all posts by a specific author. That one works as desired, but my “all posts by anyone else” query does not.
Can anyone help me sort this out?
/*
Show all posts WITHOUT relationship link to specific posts
*/
$authorID1 = 128; // First Author
$authorID2 = 126; // Second Author
$paged = ( get_query_var('paged') ) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$thePosts = new WP_Query(array(
'post_type' => 'post',
'posts_per_page' => 10,
'meta_query' => array(
'relation' => 'OR', // Use 'OR' for posts matching either author ID
array(
'key' => 'author',
'value' => $authorID1,
'compare' => 'NOT LIKE',
),
array(
'key' => 'author',
'value' => $authorID2,
'compare' => 'NOT LIKE',
),
),
'order' => 'DESC',
'orderby' => 'date',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'paged' => $paged,
));
This really seems like it should work. Is it close?
