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ACF relationship fields - get_field values from other post type

In my POSTS page (regular post type), I have setup a ACF relationship field. Inside this I can select company name which are all under the post type of directory_listings.

Now, I have the following code on the directory listings page, and therefore using simply get_field does not work because those values are not on this page, they are elsewhere on the POST type instead.

So unsure how to grab the information.

Code on one of the pages which is under the DIRECTORY_LISTINGS post type:

$posts = get_field('related_articles');

if( $posts ): ?>
    <ul>
    <?php foreach( $posts as $post): // variable must be called $post (IMPORTANT) ?>
        <?php setup_postdata($post); ?>
        <li>
            <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
        </li>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
    </ul>
    <?php wp_reset_postdata(); // IMPORTANT - reset the $post object so the rest of the page works correctly ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Example diagram as I am not great with explaining via text. enter image description here

Currently I have setup the relationship field on the company edit page (directory_listing) instead. It works when doing the following: 1) Related Posts to this business listing -> select a post -> publish - > now displays the list on the business listing page. Example here: http://bit.ly/1vwydDl (bottom of the page)

2) I'd like from the POST edit page select a business which posts will appear on. I can put the field there via ACF no problem but getting it to actually display the results I cannot figure out.

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wharfdale Avatar asked Dec 10 '14 14:12

wharfdale


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1 Answers

Background Info:

get_field() has three parameters:

  1. $field_name: the name of the field to be retrieved. eg "page_content" (required)
  2. $post_id: Specific post ID where your value was entered. Defaults to current post ID (not required). This can also be options / taxonomies / users / etc
  3. $format_value

If you were only concerned with grabbing a specific post (of which you knew the ID), the key would be the second parameter ($post_id). There's nothing really magical about ACF. Quite simply: the meta_value (i.e. the directory listing the post is tied to) is saved to each post (attached to that post's $post_id).

However, in your case, we don't know the ID of the post(s) we want to get.

Solution:

If we explain what you want to do in a simple sentence, that sentence would look something like:

Show/get posts on a directory_listings (custom post type) page which have a meta_value which points to that page.

Obviously, you can't use get_field(), because your problem has nothing to do with "getting a field." Rather, you need to "find the posts that have a specific field." ACF has great documentation on this.

Luckily for you, WordPress ships with an awesome class called a WP_Query, and a similarly awesome function called get_posts(). So looking back at our sentence above and translating it into a function, we want to: get_posts() where the meta_key has a value of the current $post_id.

Or, more specifically, on your directory_listings page, you'd have the following query:

$related_articles = get_posts(array(
    'post_type' => 'post',
    'meta_query' => array(
        array(
            'key' => 'related_articles', // name of custom field
            'value' => '"' . get_the_ID() . '"',
            'compare' => 'LIKE'
        )
    )
));

if( $related_articles ): 
    foreach( $related_articles as $article ): 

    // Do something to display the articles. Each article is a WP_Post object.
    // Example:

    echo $article->post_title;  // The post title
    echo $article->post_excerpt;  // The excerpt
    echo get_the_post_thumbnail( $article->ID );  // The thumbnail

    endforeach;
endif;
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rnevius Avatar answered Sep 18 '22 04:09

rnevius