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1. ixwa
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   I have practically identical queries like this on other pages that work just fine and I cannot figure out why this one doesn't return any results.

   $args = array(
   	'category_name' => 'reviews',
   	'meta_query' => array(
           array(
   				'key' => 'product_id',
   				'value' => $post->ID,
   				'compare' => 'LIKE'
   				)
   	),
   	'orderby' => 'post_date',
   	'order' => 'DESC',
   	'showposts' => '2'
   );
   
   $wp_query = new WP_Query( $args );
   etc.

   This query returns results when I _exclude_ the meta_query which is bizarre since posts DO exist for category and the correct value exists in the custom field (I'm using compare -> LIKE here just as a catch-all).

   Have I missed something??

2. ixwa
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Not solved yet but i did discover something utterly weird: Using $post->ID or $postId doesn't work, but using a literal number like '825' works.

   Even stranger: if I use $_GET[p] (from the URL query string) it works.

   What in God's name is going on? Obviously there's something bad about using WP-specific vars. (I run other wp_querys on this page before this one, but have tried resetting postdata or the wp_query and neither affects it.)

3. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Try something like $postid = $post->ID; and then dropping the $postid variable into your arguments.

4. ixwa
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Yes, I mentioned that I had tried this. Nada.

   It's like it can't identify this $post->ID within the $args() array even though echoing it is successful at any point. Is there some other method for using a global var within an array? (Even though I've done this successfully elsewhere)

5. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 11 months ago #

   How are you grabbing $post?

6. ixwa
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Earlier in the page I have a $wp_query (on a different post_type) but even before this I'm loading up generic get_post_meta without running any direct queries at all (works fine).

   $post->ID echoes a value outside of this, just not within $args. And the fact that I can't even assign this value to a different local var is puzzling.

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