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Posted by Raphael Blanchet
Raphael Blanchet
3,958 Points

Display on Home Page Slider checkbox

I just finished the Extending WordPress Template Functionality of the Wordpress videos and while Zac made a point earlier to add a check box for Display on homepage Slider in the custom fields of projects he never showed us how to implement this when finally did implement the slider.

Was this an oversight, otherwise what references can I read up on to know how to make this myself?

Also, on a related note was there ever a link to the WordPress project files for us to reference?

Thanks.

3 Answers

Daniel Zayas
Daniel Zayas
3,109 Points

I just asked this question before realizing it was already asked a month ago. Did you ever find any solution?

Raphael Blanchet
Raphael Blanchet
3,958 Points

I was unable to, maybe Zac Gordon can help us?

Daniel Zayas
Daniel Zayas
3,109 Points

Posted the issue on stack overflow. Here's what he left out of the tut. You put this code in that $arg statement before the slider on homepage.php. It should just be 'post_type' => 'work' right now, but here's everything that should be in there.

$args = array( 'post_type' => 'work', 'meta_key' =>'display_on_homepage', 'meta_value'=>'true' );

Don't forget the commas between the different rules in there!

Daniel Zayas
Daniel Zayas
3,109 Points

Quick edit to my original solution. Put '1' instead of 'true' in there and change the ACF field to be a true/false instead of a checkbox. That is what did the trick for me!

Raphael Blanchet
Raphael Blanchet
3,958 Points

I will try this out, thanks Daniel!

Jonathan Davies
Jonathan Davies
2,162 Points
Jonathan Davies
Jonathan Davies
2,162 Points

Yeah this also work perfectly, also note make sure to check if the name of 'display_on_homepage' is the same as what you have name in your ACF.

Thanks Daniel Great fix!

Tyler Cook
Tyler Cook
871 Points
Tyler Cook
Tyler Cook
871 Points

I actually needed the checkbox option instead of T/F for a project I was working on, so I went over to the ACF support page and there was a piece of code there that worked perfectly for me. I went ahead and plugged in the variables that Zac Gordon used in his videos. Hope this helps!! 

<?php
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'work',
'meta_query' => array(
array(
'key' => 'display_on_homepage', // name of custom field
'value' => '"Yes"', // matches exactly "Yes", not just yes. This prevents a match for "acquired"
'compare' => 'LIKE',
 )
 ),
'posts_per_page' => 3,
'order' => 'DESC'
);
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
?>