displaying all author posts and coauthor posts

  • novak1nt

    (@novak1nt)


    9 years, 10 months ago

    I am trying to display all author posts and coauthor posts on my authors.php page. Currently the single authors site is showing all the posts the he/she has written. But I am trying to display all the posts he/she has written as well as coauthored. I am currently using ACF to allow for the client to select the coauthor from a complied list of users who are authors. I am also using Timber. Currently this is what I have:

    author.php

    $coauthor_query = array(
  'post_type' => 'post',
  'meta_key' => 'coauthor',
	'meta_query' => array(
		'key' => $author,
		'compare' => '='
		)
);

$data['coauthors_posts'] = Timber::get_posts($coauthor_query);

    author.twig

    {% for post in coauthors_posts %}
		{% include 'tease-coauthor.twig' %}
	{% endfor %}

    so I have a query to select posts with a coauthor and have it display if it equals the author.

    any help would be appreciated.

    thanks.

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  • Thread Starter novak1nt

    (@novak1nt)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    I have figured my issue out. So the problem was where I suspected it, in the wp_query selection. So I had the page echo out the sql query from the wp_query selection like so:

    $results = new WP_Query( $coauthor_query );
echo $results->request;

    From this I was able to see that the ACF meta_key that I created(coauthor2) is displayed as a serialized Author ID. So here is the update to the query:

    $coauthor_query = array(
  'post_type' => 'post',
	'meta_query' => array(
		array(
	    'key' => 'coauthor2',
			'value' => serialize(strval($author->ID)),
			'compare' => 'LIKE'
    )
	)
);

    Now on my Authors page. It will display all content posted by the author as well as anything he/she has coauthored.

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