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1. theryancollier
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   I'm having trouble using the new meta_query argument with a custom post type (not sure if that even has anything to do with it). Basically I'm trying to use a custom field value to sort through my custom post type.

   function my_function($branch){
          $args = array(
   		'posts_per_page' => 10,
   		'post_type' => 'officer_profile',
   		'meta_query' => array(
   			'key' => 'asg_branch_gvt',
   			'value' => $branch
   			)
   		);
   	$officers = new WP_Query($args);
   }

   But when I use the older method and remove the meta_query array and replace it with meta_key => 'asg_branch_gvt', meta_value => $branch

   It returns no problem.

   What gives? Any ideas?

2. theryancollier
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Of course, right after I post I figure out the problem. You actually need to pass and array of arrays. So my code works now that I changed the code to:

   function my_function($branch){
          $args = array(
   		'posts_per_page' => 10,
   		'post_type' => 'officer_profile',
   		'meta_query' => array(
                           array(
   			'key' => 'asg_branch_gvt',
   			'value' => $branch
   			))
   		);
   	$officers = new WP_Query($args);
   }

   Luckily I wasn't the only one with this problem in the last few hours. ;) See http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16563 gives details.

   I think more than anything, some improvement to the example usage in the query_posts Codex page would help. See the heading "Multiple Custom Field Handling" at http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts. In fact that code example may be wrong.

3. worldofharry
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Weird, this didn't work for me.

   Rather, this worked as I was working with query_posts.

   $args["meta_query"] = array("state"=>  array("Delhi", "IN"));

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