Title: WP_Query and Custom Fields
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WP_Query and Custom Fields

 *  [alernon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alernon/)
 * (@alernon)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_query-and-custom-fields/)
 * I’m trying to make a featured story at the top of my wp blog. I’m marking the
   stories I want to be featured with a customfield called “featured” with a value
   of true. In my header.php file I’m trying something like this:
 *     ```
       <?php $my_query = new WP_Query('meta_key=featured&meta_value=true&showposts=1');
         while ($my_query->have_posts()) :
          // Display post information
         endwhile; ?>
       ```
   
 * unfortunately, this is just displaying the latest post, regardless of the custom
   fields.
 * Also, later on within my main loop, I’d like to denote stories that were featured,
   but are now older. Is there and easy way to check a key/value pair from a post
   within the loop? Thanks.

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_query-and-custom-fields/)
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