Comments on: How to Only Retrieve Posts With Custom Fields

By: Epic Alex

Epic Alex — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:23:16 +0000

@Ronald - Thanks for the tutorial, its helping me to get to grips with something I’m trying to do, but I’m struggling a little. I’d like to display a list of posts where a certain custom field key has a certain value. So for example, show all posts where the key Number was equal to 10.

I can’t work out if I should change the mysql query, or if i should alter something later on like use an if statement to check for a key equaling a value.

Any help would be appreciated,
Alex

By: vnvsven

vnvsven — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:54:51 +0000

Is it possible to use this code also for pages with custom fields?

By: vnvsven

vnvsven — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:32:58 +0000

Great how-to !

By: Marie-Aude

Marie-Aude — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:01:41 +0000

Thanks a lot, I was just trying to look for something like that.
The only question - I’m really far from being an expert in coding - how can you then order the fields according to a custom field ?

By: Maria

Maria — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:22:24 +0000

Thank you so much for this post! I was trying to figure it out myself, but that didn’t work.
@Viper: that works!

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By: Ronald Huereca

Ronald Huereca — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:59:41 +0000

@Dan,
This way is perhaps more reusable. More efficient? Not likely. If anything, I’d say your technique and this one are about the same. Both make use of one query. The only difference is, I modify the query for posts using built-in WordPress filters. You probably call a query directly.

By: Ronald Huereca

Ronald Huereca — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:57:48 +0000

@Kang,
Please get in contact with Mark via the WLTC contact form. He’ll be able to answer your question.

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By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:28:35 +0000

Great post! Thanks! I’d done something similar but basically used a query object and pulled everything out that way. Is this way more efficient? On my personal site I’ve implemented something using your mechanism, but I’m wondering if it’s worth updating my other project…this way is slightly cleaner I think. Very interested to know if it’s more efficient. Thanks!

By: Ronald Huereca

Ronald Huereca — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:42:24 +0000

@Viper,
Thanks for weighing in.

@Ekro,
This technique only returns posts just with custom fields. Paging doesn’t currently work. I’ll probably write a separate post on that.

By: Gordon Brander

Gordon Brander — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:52:05 +0000

Thanks for the tip! Very helpful. I was only aware of the_meta() template tag which isn’t nearly as flexible as get_post_custom_values().

By: Ekro

Ekro — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:42:27 +0000

This only lists posts with defined custom fields. Is there any way to still append posts without custom fields? And does paging work with this solution? Thanks!

By: Viper007Bond

Viper007Bond — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:33:00 +0000

Pages are just posts with a different post_type.

I haven’t tried it, but this _may_ work (I’ve only glanced at query.php):

$customPosts->query('showposts=5&post_type=page');

By: DFOE

DFOE — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:19:07 +0000

very nice! it would also be handy to have something like this that matched key/value pairs (where x=y in custom fields).

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By: Ronald Huereca

Ronald Huereca — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:48:22 +0000

@Matt,

No, I haven’t played around with pages a whole lot. Perhaps you can try tapping into the ‘posts_where’ filter if you want to limit the results further.

Can anyone else help Matt with this?

By: Matt Goff

Matt Goff — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:34:46 +0000

Thanks for writing this article, it seems very close to something I would like to be able to do, except with pages. Do you know of a relatively easy way to get this to work with pages instead of posts?

By: Ronald Huereca

Ronald Huereca — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:30:58 +0000

@Jacob,
By all means, go for it - the Codex that is, not the highlander reference.