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How to Only Show Posts With a Specific Custom Field

by John Kolbert | Posted in: WordPress

Sometimes you only want to show posts that you’ve added a specific custom field to. For instance, lets say you write book and movie reviews and for each you give them a custom field “review_type” with the value set to either “book” or “movie”. So how would you show posts that are only movie reviews? Easily!

A typical post loop begins like this:

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

We’re going to add a simple query_posts function immediately above the loop code. In our scenario it would look like this:

<?php query_posts('meta_key=review_type&meta_value=movie');  ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

We’ve now restricted posts in the loop to movie reviews. Easy! Read the WP Codex article for more advanced uses of the query_posts function.

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26 Comments

  1. Tomas Buteler said:

    Just followed here from Wp-Recipes…

    This is a great function, thanks for sharing!

    Just a heads-up, though, which you can correct me if I’m wrong: I tried to use it a while back and found out that it wasn’t good for the type of Custom Field I had created (I figured instead of doing ‘yes’ or ‘no’ meta values for my fields, I use the classic binary ‘0′ and ‘1′), only to find out that calling ‘meta_key=whatever&meta_value=0′ completely ignores the second parameter…

    If you need to fetch custom fields whose value needs to be ‘0′, you’ll have to use a Custom SELECT query, instead.

    Cheers!

    on May 6, 2009 at 3:30 am Reply

  2. Jerry said:

    John,

    I’ve tested this code and it works great … however I would like to be able to sort the order of the posts as they appear on the page … i have a meta_key called “player-jersey-number” that I would like to sort the entries as they are displayed by the player’s number, not when post created.

    on July 23, 2009 at 11:29 am Reply

  3. justgage said:

    Think you just saved my bacon =D

    on August 26, 2009 at 3:32 pm Reply

  4. pete said:

    Hi John… almost what i was looking for. How would would this be updated if I only want to show posts that I’ve added 2 or 3 specific custom fields to

    thanks
    Pete

    on October 2, 2009 at 2:03 pm Reply


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