WP_Query filtered by custom field using meta_key and meta_value

• SQD

• February 26, 2018 at 12:43 pm

Hello,

I’ve followed the tutorial on this and looked at another forum thread and I still can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong. I suspect it’s simple, but can’t seem to see it.

I’ve made a CPT called ‘articles’ and a custom field called ‘popular_or_scientific’ which allows an article to be classified as ‘Popular’ or ‘Scientific’. My decision to use ACF for this instead of WP categories or ‘tags’ is purely UI/UX driven.

In Custom Fields I set up a Checkbox:
the_field('popular_or_scientific');

with choices: Popular and Scientific.

Here’s my code:

<?php
				$args = array(
				  'post_type' => 'articles',
				  'meta_key'		=> 'popular_or_scientific',
			  	  'meta_value'	=> 'Popular'

				);

				//Query
				$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
				if( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
				  while( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
				    $the_query->the_post();
				    the_title();
				   
 				}
          }
          else {
            echo 'No articles found.';
          }
			 ?>

It returns nothing. When I tested with a simple text field, it works fine, so I suspect that I’m not doing something correctly with the Checkbox object.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Seth

• bosoxbill

• March 25, 2018 at 5:09 pm

Is your checkbox field set to return values?