WP Query: Getting Posts with Certain Flexible Content Values

• signups3

• January 30, 2015 at 5:42 am

I have tried the following but to no avail:

http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/querying-the-database-for-repeater-sub-field-values/

My repeater is setup as shown in the attached image.

Serving is a repeater field. Serveinfo is a layout that allows you to insert a year a state legislator served and for what branch (i.e. House or Senate, as well as some other fields, but disregard those).

I need to be able to write a query to get posts of type ‘legislator’ that have a year and type of a defined value (I.e. Senators of 2013, House members of 2014, etc).

I can do WP Queries with ACF regular fields no problem, but am stumped when it comes to flexible fields.

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• James

• June 6, 2016 at 7:21 pm

Hi @signups3,

Thanks for the post.

In this kind of query it is highly recommended to create a custom filter to replace the standard ‘=’ with ‘LIKE’ and this is to allow for a WILDCARD in the meta_key search.

This has also been described with examples here: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/query-posts-custom-fields/