User Field – display relationship posts.

• Korkodilos

• January 11, 2023 at 8:31 am

I’ve added a new “User field” in a CPT and wish to link the posts to specific users as I do not wish to change the author.

How would you go in order to display these relationships? I can get it working in making a repeater to show all of the authors posts. Don’t know where to start in order to display the User Field relationships…

The code i’m using to display the if usert = Author posts is the following.

<?php

function dynamic_ids_query( $query ) {
global $post;
global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();
$authorID = $current_user->ID;
if ( $query->query['post_type'][0] == 'taktiko-mitroo' or 'post' ) {
$query->set( 'author', $authorID );
}
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'dynamic_ids_query' );
?>

Any way to change it and make it to work for if user = user from the relationship?

• John Huebner

• January 16, 2023 at 12:44 pm

You would have to alter the query by adding a meta_query for the user field.

$meta_query = array(
  array(
    'key' => 'user_field_name',
    // user field is stored as a serialized array
    // of string User IDs
    // value must be enclosed in quotes
    // compare must be LIKE
    'value' => '"'.$user_id.'"',
    'compare' => 'LIKE'
  )
);
$query->set('meta_query', $meta_query);