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Sergi Beltran
Sergi Beltran
18,493 Points
Posted by Sergi Beltran
Sergi Beltran
18,493 Points

List all pages with the custom field 'home' is true

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to display the list of pages with custom field 'home'.

I made the custom field from the plugin 'Advanced Custom Fields'.

If a do this:

wp_list_pages( 'meta_key=home' );

Wordpress display correctly 5 links to pages with the custom field 'home' true.

But I would like to use get_pages() or WP_Query because I would like to get the permalink, the images attached and so on to markup the list as I want.

I'm trying to do this with get_pages():

$args = array(
  'meta_key' => 'home',
  'post_type' => 'page',
  'sort_order' => 'asc'
);
$pages = get_pages($args); 
print_r($pages);

...but the result is a empty array.

I'm trying to do this with WP_Query:

$the_query = new WP_Query( 'meta_key=home' );

if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
  while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
    echo '<p>Hello</p>'; 
   }
}

...but no paragraphs in the page....nothing.

What can I do?

1 Answer

mikes02
mikes02
Courses Plus Student 16,968 Points

Did you check their documentation? They give many query examples: http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/query-posts-custom-fields/