I am developing a “story” website where the Authors are outsiders. Each Author has its own showcase Page, where it showcases only the Author’s post. So I have a template Page where I will use to create for any new Author that signs up.
I am using Loopers to showcase different posts in different categories. I have 6 post categories, e.g. horror, comedy, gut-wrenching, etc. So each Looper is 1 category.
- Story
– Horror
– Comedy
– Get-Wrenching
Every time I create a new Page for an Author (from a template), I have to go to individual Loopers and configure 6 times to filter just the Author. That’s a pain.
My solution is to create a taxonomy custom field (via ACF) on the Page. Assign the taxonomy custom field to the Category that is for that specific Author (i.e. every Author has its own category)… so that the 6 Loopers do not need to be reconfigured.
- Authors
– Author1
– Author2
For the Looper Provider, I want to use a Query String. The custom field is called “artist_category” on the Page. So my Query String looks like this:
cat=45&meta_key=artist_category
(cat=45 is Comedy)
This, unfortunately, does not work (even though the syntax is correct). I believe it is because the ACF is on the Page (not Post). Would you have any suggestions on how I can make this work?
