Shortcode parameters not working

Hi dcooney, thanks for your speedy reply. I am somewhat familiar with the meta_query – or at least know where to find the documentation on it. How are you suggesting I use it? My apologies for not understanding fully – I have been working on this issue for many hours today and my brain is starting to get a little fried!

I’d be more than happy to try whatever you recommend. Thanks very much for your effort in troubleshooting, and for the excellent plugin.

Sorry for the late reply, I did not have access to my dev environment last night. I set up the WP_Query on the “show-template.php” page. I used the following:

<?php $wp_query = new WP_Query (array (
      'post_type' => 'mag_show_post',
      'post_per_page' => -1,
      'meta_query' => array(
           array(
               'key' => 'season_number',
               'value' => $page_season_number,
               'compare' => '='
          )
     )
)); ?>

The query returned the expected posts which match the season_number, so it seems to work well.

Unfortunately the page currently exists only in my local environment, and I believe client confidentiality may prohibit me from sharing even if it were not. I do realize this may make it very difficult or impossible to debug and apologize for the inconvenience. I would be happy to share any further details or code required.

I am unable to pass the post_type via the shortcode, but if I pass it into the get_posts() method in the repeater template it does work. The same is true for meta_key and meta_value.

This is the code I am using in the repeater template:

<span>
<?php global $post;
$recentposts = get_posts(array(
	'post_type' => 'mag_show_post',
	'meta_key' => 'season_number'
));
foreach ($recentposts as $post) : setup_postdata($post);
$post_season_number = get_field('season_number'); ?>
    //display each post here
<?php endforeach; wp_reset_postdata(); unset($post); ?>
</span>

I’m not doing anything with $post_season_number in the repeater template because I wasn’t able to provide it access to the $page_season_number. This wouldn’t be a problem if I could pass $page_season_number through the shortcode, but unfortunately that’s been an issue as well. Somehow I need to provide both the $page_season_number and the $post_season_number in the same context so that I can compare the two.

First I’ll note that I’m using the shortcode like so, not sure if it makes a difference:

<?php echo do_shortcode('[ajax_load_more posts_per_page="1" button_label="View More" destroy_after="2" scroll="false"]'); ?>

All of the parameters you see there work perfectly. However, if I try this:

<?php echo do_shortcode('[ajax_load_more posts_per_page="1" button_label="View More" destroy_after="2" scroll="false" post_type="mag_show_post"]'); ?>

or this:

<?php echo do_shortcode('[ajax_load_more posts_per_page="1" button_label="View More" destroy_after="2" scroll="false" meta_key="season_number" meta_value="2"]'); ?>

Using either of those shortcodes, ALM will display only posts with the post_type of ‘post’. It will not display posts with the specified post_type or the specified meta_key.