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WordPress

Posted by John Creedon
John Creedon
4,260 Points

Wordpress ACF -> querying page templates instead of posts

So basically i have setup advanced custom fields and i want to structure my website so that when i create a page with a page template of say 'topic-page' i would like ACF to add the custom fields to all pages that have a page template of 'topic-page'. In the past i would use the $args array to query the post_type = 'slug' however how do i query a page template?

existing code for querying post types:

$args = array( 'post_type' = 'the name of the post type' ); $args = new WP_Query( $args );

So i would like to modify it to be able to reference fields from a page template

Thanks

1 Answer

Hugo Paz
Hugo Paz
15,622 Points
Hugo Paz
Hugo Paz
15,622 Points

Hi Yanni,

Could you try this:

$args = array(
    'post_type'  => 'page', 
    'meta_query' => array( 
        array(
            'key'   => '_wp_page_template', 
            'value' => 'your_template_name.php'
        )
    )
);