Using Checkbox conditional logic in a loop

• markyeoj

• December 4, 2013 at 5:53 am

How to do a conditional logic for a checkbox value in a loop?.
My custom checkbox field is only assigned into a page, it only has 1 checkbox. What I am trying to do is to display all the page on my homepage where the checkbox value is true.

here is my code
<div class=”one-third column”>

<?php
$args = array(
                    'numberposts' => 5,
                    'post_type' => 'page',
                    'meta_query' =>
                        array(
                            'key' => 'featured_page',
                            'value' => 'yes',
                        )
                );

                // get results
                $the_query = new WP_Query( $args );

                // The Loop
                ?>
                <?php if( $the_query->have_posts() ): ?>
                    <ul>
                        <?php while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
                            <li>
                                <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
                            </li>
                        <?php endwhile; ?>
                    </ul>
                <?php endif; ?>

                <?php wp_reset_query();?>

</div>

Thanks,
Mark

• Elliot

• December 4, 2013 at 11:10 am

Hi @markyeoj

Your code looks good. Does it work? If not, what part doesn’t work?

Is your ‘checkbox’ field actually a checkbox field with a ‘yes’ choice? Or is it actually a true / false field?

Thanks
E

• markyeoj

• December 4, 2013 at 7:51 pm

Thanks @elliot for response, its not working because I only assigned 5 for number of posts, but it displays 10 pages, one more problem is I only checked one page but like what I said it displays 10 pages in my homepage.

Here is the image of my setup.

• markyeoj

• December 4, 2013 at 8:36 pm

Fixed.
I used true/false instead of checkbox field and used this code.

$args = array(
            'post_type' => 'page',
            'meta_key' =>'featured_page',
            'meta_value'=>'1'
        );

                // get results
                $the_query = new WP_Query( $args );

                // The Loop
                ?>
                <?php if( $the_query->have_posts() ): ?>
                    <ul>
                        <?php while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
                            <li>
                                <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
                            </li>
                        <?php endwhile; ?>
                    </ul>
                <?php endif; ?>

                <?php wp_reset_query(); ?>