trying to get a custom field in a query

• herrfischer

• October 18, 2013 at 2:33 am

i have a custom field where i can choose the category per pulldown, so in the template i can get this custom post type category to show a loop:

<?php
$temp = $wp_query;
$wp_query = null;
$wp_query = new WP_Query (array('post_type' => 'stellenangebote', 'category_name' => get_field('jobs_kategorie') )); 
?>

but the part with:

'category_name' => get_field('jobs_kategorie')

won’t work. any idea?

• reardestani

• October 19, 2013 at 5:50 am

Hi,

You are getting the value of your custom field (jobs_kategorie) outside of loop so you should provide the post id as well in get_field() like get_field('category-name', 64).

For your case I recommend you to add another custom field for post id.

$wp_query = new WP_Query (array('post_type' => 'stellenangebote', 'category_name' => get_field('jobs_kategorie', 'jobs_post_id') )); 
?>

Regards,

• herrfischer

• October 21, 2013 at 10:27 pm

got it working now:

<?php
$temp = $wp_query;
$wp_query= null;
$wp_query = new WP_Query(); 
$wp_query->query('cat='.(get_field('jobs_kategorie')).'&paged='.$paged .'&showposts=1' .'&post_type=stellenangebote' ); ?>