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[flogee]

Hi am sorry to ask, i hab been trying to find a solution for 4 straight hours without success and now hope for your help.

i have created a CPT called “members”

For my regular (articles) posts I have added a ACF “relationship” field, called “author” to select members. This field is set to return the ID (not object). So far this works, it outputs the member’s post ID when testing.

To display the members profile-page i have created a layout in Cornerstone.
I am tying to accomplish that beneath a members profile-information to also show 3-4 related articles of that member. I tried that by using a WP-Query-String but no matter what i try, posts are showing but not only the ones i hoped for, it just displays all posts, disregarding the query to only pull the ones with the right ID. For testing i hardcoded ‘342’ which is the ID of my own member-page, if it works i will replace it with {{dc:post:id}} in the member-layout.

I used the following args:

$args = array(
‘post_type’ => ‘post’,
‘meta_query’ => array(
‘key’ => ‘author’,
‘value’ => 342,
‘compare’ => ‘==’,
‘type’ => ‘numeric’
),
);
var_dump( http_build_query( $args ) );

OUTPUT:
post_type=post&meta_query%5Bkey%5D=author&meta_query%5Bvalue%5D=342&meta_query%5Bcompare%5D=%3D%3D&meta_query%5Btype%5D=numeric

[ruenel]

Hello Florian,

Thanks for writing in!

You almost have the query string. You just need to use the ACF “Members” dynamic content to be added in your query string like this:
post_type=post&meta_query%5Bkey%5D=author&meta_query%5Bvalue%5D={{dc:acf:post_field field="members"}}&meta_query%5Bcompare%5D=%3D%3D&meta_query%5Btype%5D=numeric

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Kindly let us know how it goes.

[christian]

Hey Florian,

Your site couldn’t load on my end. If you’re using some IP restriction, please deactivate the restrictions while we investigate because we are located in different parts of the world so we cannot provide IP addresses to whitelist.

Thanks.

[flogee]

oh sorry i mistyped my domain name its: entribe.org

maybe i was not clear in my initial post, the problem seems that any posts are pulled in by the query not just the ones that are associated to the members.

Thanks!!

[flogee]

Hi, I still hope you can help me here, thanks!

[flogee]

Hi, im not sure but it seems like someone of your team has looked into my site a few days before, but has not completed, is anyone still on it? thanks!

The Question is still why the following query string for the looper provider is not only outputting posts where the_author = the ID of the current post, but pulls in any posts disregarding the value of the_author

post_type=post&meta_query%5Bkey%5D=the_author&meta_query%5Bvalue%5D={{dc:post:id}}&meta_query%5Bcompare%5D=%3D%3D&meta_query%5Btype%5D=numeric

See Posts-Element in https://entribe.org/cornerstone/layouts/593

Thanks!

[flogee]

hi, can you pleas take a look at my ticket, is anyone of your team on it? thanks!

[ruenel]

Hey Florian,

I am still checking (and scratching my head) why it is not returning anything. I also have forwarded this thread to my colleagues for further investigation.

Please bear with us.

[flogee]

hi, i needed to go online in the meanwhile but i haven’t found the problem yet, do you have an idea?

[christian]

Hey Florian,

The cause is still a mystery to us.

Please bear with us.

Thanks.