codypersinger

!!!! I believe I’ve just solved my own problem, and I feel like a complete idiot!

I removed the get_posts method from my repeater template and the shortcode seems to be working beautifully now. I think I completely misunderstood how ALM works in regards to the repeater template. ALM is making its own calls to grab posts, I just need to provide it the specifics. Instead, I was trying to write the call to grab posts. Thanks so much for your assistance in this dcooney, I doubt I would have ever figured it out if I hadn’t been tinkering during this debug session. You rock!

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.

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.

I would like to add that during my testing of the ALM shortcode, I was not able to select by post_type either. I am able to get post_type to work when I pass it into the repeater template:

get_posts('post_type=post')

Other ALM shortcode works fine, such as destroy_after, scroll, and button_label – but post_type, meta_key, and meta_value do not seem to work in my shortcode.