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1. wlanni
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Running a new WP_Query on a template page.

   I'm trying to return a long list of posts from four different custom post types, as well as 5 different taxonomies, a couple of which have limited terms.

   I'm filtering one of the post types by a custom field that only that
   post type has; none of the others have it. That custom field is:

   'has_page'

   And has a value of either

   'yes' or 'no'

   Initially setting the $args up with the 'key' value wound up filtering out all the other post types that do not have that key. So I pulled the 'key' from the array, and set the compare to !=, and then to "NOT LIKE".

   'meta_query' => array(
   	array(
   		//'key'		=> 'has_page',
   		'value'		=> 'no',
   		'compare'	=> '!=',
   	)
   ),

   Neither of these worked. Every post from all post types are returned.

   However, if I set the 'compare' to '=' or 'LIKE', it does wind up filtering the posts and returning only the post type that has a value of no, or returning the post type with a value of 'yes'. But everything else gets dropped.

   How do I filter this subset of posts that have that custom field with that specific value, as well as include all other posts that don't have that custom field? Is there a way to apply a meta_query to a specific post type?

   Here's the complete list of args, maybe something is conflicting?

   $args=array(
   	'tax_query' => array (
   		'relation'	=> 'OR',
   		array(
   			'taxonomy'	=> 'styles',
   			'terms' 	=> $stylesterms,
   		),
   		array(
   			'taxonomy'	=> 'materials',
   			'terms'		=> $materialsterms,
   		),
   		array(
   			'taxonomy'	=> 'venues',
   			'field'		=> 'slug',
   			'terms'		=> $venuesterms,
   			'operator'	=> 'NOT IN',
   		),
   		array(
   			'taxonomy'	=> 'decades',
   			'terms'		=> $decadessterms,
   		),
   		array(
   			'taxonomy'	=> 'exhibitions',
   			'terms'		=> $exhterms,
   		),
   	),
   	'posts_per_page' 	=> 15,
   	'paged'				=> $paged,
   	'ignore_sticky_posts'	=> 1,
   	'post_type'			=> array('location','people','comparative','woa'),
   	'orderby'			=> 'title',
   	'order'				=> 'DESC',
   	'meta_query'		=> array(
   		array(
   			//'key'		=> 'has_page',
   			'value'		=> 'yes',
   			'compare'	=> '!=',
   		)
   	),
   );

2. cpres
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   I'm having the same issue in a much simpler query.

   $query->set( 'post_type', array( 'post', 'orarticle' ) );
   $query->set( 'meta_query', array(
   	array(
   		'key'	=>	'articletype',
   		'value'	=>	'Technology',
   		'compare' => '!='
   		))
   
   );

   No fiddling I've done with adding post_types into the meta_query has done anything to help. I only get posts where there is an "articletype" set and that articletype is NOT Technology. It completely skips over every 'post' post_type which doesn't have the meta_key for 'articletype'

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