I have a custom post type in Wordpress called People (each post in people is a person with some bio details etc).
Inside each People post I've created a custom field called 'tags' which has a series of checkboxes.
If someone clicks on the System Manager checkbox I want to be able to only pull through all the system managers on a particular page.
The most success I've had is using the wp_get_recent_posts instead of new wp_query .. this will output everybody UNTIL I add my extra meta query search. Then nothing appears.
$people_args = array(
'post_type' => 'people',
'post_status'=>'publish',
'meta_query' => array(
array(
'key' => 'tags', // name of custom field
'value' => 'systemmanager',
'compare' => 'LIKE'
)
)
);
$people_posts = wp_get_recent_posts($people_args);
foreach( $people_posts as $people ){
$fields = get_fields($people["ID"]);
if (get_post_thumbnail_id( $people["ID"] )>0) {
$myimgsp = wp_get_attachment_image_src(get_post_thumbnail_id($people["ID"]),'full');
echo '
<li class="item">
<a href="'.get_permalink(43).'"><img src="'.$myimgsp[0].'" alt="'.$people["post_title"].'" class="img-responsive" /></a>
<div class="profile">
<h3>'.$people["post_title"].'</h3>
<p>'.$fields["job_title"].'</p>
<a href="'.get_permalink(43).'" class="btn invert black">View Profile</a>
</div>
</li>';
}
}
wp_reset_query();
I've been stuck on this for hours trying out all the different types of loops but I've had no luck. Has anyone come across this problem before?
So I'm feeling a little silly! In my functions.php I had forgotten to set that the custom post type should support custom fields. So even though my Advanced Custom Fields were showing .. it wasn't getting pulled through when I was calling it.
To rectify I added to my custom post type config: