wendallsan

bcworkz, you hit the head on the nail. thank you. Changing my print_r to var_dump indeed indicates that the meta data is stored as a string rather than an integer. However, changing my query’s value from an integer to a string still does not return any results. Here’s my modified code and output:

$args = array( # GET ALL CHAPTERED_VIDEO POSTS WITH A META KEY OF 'SPEAKER'
    'posts_per_page' => -1,
    'post_type' => 'chaptered_video',
    'meta_query' => array(
        array(
            'key'=>'speaker'
        )
    )
);

$posts = get_posts($args); # GET THE POSTS

foreach($posts as $post){ # LOOP THRU POSTS
    $meta = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'speaker', true); # GET THE POST'S 'SPEAKER' META
    echo "post '$post->post_name' speaker meta:<br/>"; # OUTPUT THE META
    var_dump($meta);
    echo "<br/><br/>";
}

$args = array( # GET ALL CHAPTERED_VIDEO POSTS WITH A META KEY OF 'SPEAKER' AND A META VALUE OF 145
    'posts_per_page' => -1,
    'post_type' => 'chaptered_video',
    'meta_query' => array(
        array(
            'key'=>'speaker',
            'value'=> "145" # THIS IS THE 1ST VALUE OUTPUT IN THE LOOP ABOVE
        )
    )
);

$posts = get_posts($args); # GET THE POSTS
if (empty($posts)) echo "there are no posts<br/>"; # OUTPUT IF EMPTY
else { # ELSE SHOW THE POSTS
    echo "posts: <br/>";
    var_dump($posts);
    echo "<br/><br/>";
    $posts_count = count($posts);
    echo "there are $post_count posts.<br/>";
}

This outputs:

post 'who-do-you-say-that-i-am-session-1-expectation-of-a-messiah' speaker meta:
array(1) { [0]=> string(3) "145" }

post 'ancient-traditions-from-the-hebrew-scriptures-session-3' speaker meta:
array(1) { [0]=> string(3) "151" }

post 'ancient-traditions-from-the-hebrew-scriptures-session-2' speaker meta:
array(1) { [0]=> string(3) "156" }

post 'ancient-traditions-from-the-hebrew-scriptures-session-1' speaker meta:
array(1) { [0]=> string(3) "158" }

post 'ancient-traditions' speaker meta:
array(1) { [0]=> string(3) "145" }

there are no posts

How can I get the posts? I figured that changing the value to the proper data type would work, but I’m still not getting any results back from my second get_posts() call.

d’oh, you are correct– I’d done something wrong, have gone through the network setup instructions again, and am in business now. Thanks very much for your patience!

Thanks forl the response, after doing some reading, it looks like I need to use the subdomain approach rather than a subdir approach since this is an already-existing site. I’m going to try that route and will post a new topic when I (inevitably) have additional questions.