Using the true/false field to decide if a post is displayed

• harryadf

• December 18, 2013 at 11:59 pm

Hello, I am using the ACF plugin and i’ve ran into an issue using the true/false field.

I basically want to have a true/false option on every post saying whether it should be displayed on a certain page or not.

Currently This page displays every ‘channel’ post where as I want it to display every ‘channel’ post other than those with the option saying it shouldn’t be display.

I don’t really have an idea of how I would do this and would greatly appreciate some help.

This is the code that pulls the post into the page –

<section id="channels" class="container">
	<div class="rowOpen clearfix">
    	<div class="twelvecol">
        	<div id="masonary" class="nomargin">
            	<?php
					$channels = new WP_Query(array('post_type'=> 'channels'));
					while ($channels->have_posts()) : $channels->the_post(); 				
				?>
                    <div class="mason galleryItem">
                        <div class="img-contain border">
                            <a href="<?php the_field('channel_link'); ?>" target="_blank" class="img-shiv">
                              <?php $image = get_field('channel_logo');
                                    if(!empty($image)) {
                                        $imageResized = vt_resize( '', $image, 183, 183, false );
                                        $imageTitle = get_the_title(); 
                                        echo '<img src="'.$imageResized[url].'" height="'.$imageResized[height].'" width="'.$imageResized[width].'" alt="'.$imageTitle.'" class="statImg" />';
                                    } 
                               ?> 
                            </a>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                    
              <?php endwhile; ?>      
        	</div>        
    	</div>    
	</div>
</section>

Thanks in advance, Harry.

• Elliot

• December 19, 2013 at 9:56 am

Hi @harryadf

Within the loop, but before any ‘cahnnel’ code is output, you can conditionaly check the true_false value and skip the loop if necessary like so:

<?php while ($channels->have_posts()) : $channels->the_post(); ?>
	
	<?php if( ! get_field('true_false_field_name')){ continue; } ?>
	
	<?php // channel code here ?>
	
<?php endwhile; ?>
				
				

• harryadf

• December 20, 2013 at 9:02 pm

I have added it like so –

<section id="channels" class="container">
	<div class="rowOpen clearfix">
    	<div class="twelvecol">
        	<div id="masonary" class="nomargin">
        	
            	<?php
					$channels = new WP_Query(array('post_type'=> 'channels'));
					while ($channels->have_posts()) : $channels->the_post();
					if( ! get_field('show_on_channel_page')){ continue; }
				?>
                    <div class="mason galleryItem">
                        <div class="img-contain border">
                            <a href="<?php the_field('channel_link'); ?>" target="_blank" class="img-shiv">
                              <?php $image = get_field('channel_logo');
                                    if(!empty($image)) {
                                        $imageResized = vt_resize( '', $image, 183, 183, false );
                                        $imageTitle = get_the_title(); 
                                        echo '<img src="'.$imageResized[url].'" height="'.$imageResized[height].'" width="'.$imageResized[width].'" alt="'.$imageTitle.'" class="statImg" />';
                                    } 
                               ?> 
                            </a>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                    
              <?php endwhile; ?>      
        	</div>        
    	</div>    
	</div>
</section>

and I still can’t seem to get it to work.

Sorry for my incompetence but i’m fairly new to this.

Thanks, Harry.

• harryadf

• December 20, 2013 at 9:34 pm

<section id="channels" class="container">
<div class="rowOpen clearfix">
<div class="twelvecol">
<div id="masonary" class="nomargin">
<?php
$channels = new WP_Query(array('post_type'=> 'channels'));
while ($channels->have_posts()) : $channels->the_post();
if( ! get_field('show_on_channel_page')){ continue; } ?>
<div class="mason galleryItem">
<div class="img-contain border">
<a href="<?php the_field('channel_link'); ?>" target="_blank" class="img-shiv">
<?php $image = get_field('channel_logo');
if(!empty($image)) {
$imageResized = vt_resize( '', $image, 183, 183, false );
$imageTitle = get_the_title(); 
echo '<img src="'.$imageResized[url].'" height="'.$imageResized[height].'" width="'.$imageResized[width].'" alt="'.$imageTitle.'" class="statImg" />';
}
?> 
</a>
</div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>      
</div>        
</div>    
</div>
</section>

(Thought i’d add it without any indents to make it easier to read)

• harryadf

• December 20, 2013 at 9:45 pm

My bad, I had to go through each post and update them one by one, huge thanks for your help and happy holidays!

Thanks, Harry.