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1. daletaylor
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hello,

   I have a 'News' category and I would like to be able to make certain posts in that category 'Featured' or 'Sticky'.

   To make a post 'Featured', I add a Custom Field 'Featured News' with the value 'true'. For normal posts, there is no Custom Field.

   I could not get WP_query to sort the posts properly so what I tried was doing two separate queries, the first to get featured posts and the second to get non featured posts. However, it seems that if the Custom Field is not present at all, the post gets ignored. Here is my code:

   $newsQuery = array(	'category_name' => 'news',
   					'meta_query' => array( 'key' => 'Featured News', 'compare' => '!=', 'value' => 'true' ),
   					'posts_per_page' => 4,
   					'orderby' => 'date',
   					'order' => 'desc' );

   It would seem that in order for this to work I would have to give non-featured posts the Custom Field 'Featured News' with a value 'false'. I was hoping that if the field is not present, a value of 'false' would be assumed. Is there any way to make it work that way?

   Thanks!

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I think this might be more of a human logic issue rather than a coding one. As far as I can tell, there's no way to use WP_query to pull posts that don't have a specific custom field (meta_key). So your second query will need to pull in all posts and then you'll have to check the each result before you display it it to see if it was in the first query. Perhaps by creating an array of post ids during the first query's Loop and then using a simple in_array() check?

3. daletaylor
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi,

   Thanks for your response. I will try doing something like that.

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