I have set a custom meta key 'post_views' on a custom post type which I can see in my database has been added for 3 posts.
I now need to retrieve the ID's for these posts by searching for all posts that have this meta key.
$q = new WP_Query([
'meta_key' => 'post_views',
]);
$posts = $q->posts;
foreach($posts as $post) {
var_dump($post);
echo $post;
}
My problem is that when I do the WP_Query it does not return any posts.
Can anyone see why im not getting any results?
Thanks you
Also if I var_dump($q) it returns the following:
object(WP_Query)[12961]
public 'query' =>
array (size=1)
'meta_key' => string 'post_views' (length=10)
public 'query_vars' =>
array (size=64)
'meta_key' => string 'post_views' (length=10)
'error' => string '' (length=0)
'm' => string '' (length=0)
'p' => int 0
'post_parent' => string '' (length=0)
'subpost' => string '' (length=0)
'subpost_id' => string '' (length=0)
'attachment' => string '' (length=0)
'attachment_id' => int 0
'name' => string '' (length=0)
'pagename' => string '' (length=0)
'page_id' => int 0
'second' => string '' (length=0)
'minute' => string '' (length=0)
'hour' => string '' (length=0)
'day' => int 0
'monthnum' => int 0
'year' => int 0
'w' => int 0
'category_name' => string '' (length=0)
'tag' => string '' (length=0)
'cat' => string '' (length=0)
'tag_id' => string '' (length=0)
'author' => string '' (length=0)
'author_name' => string '' (length=0)
'feed' => string '' (length=0)
'tb' => string '' (length=0)
'paged' => int 0
'meta_value' => string '' (length=0)
'preview' => string '' (length=0)
's' => string '' (length=0)
'sentence' => string '' (length=0)
'title' => string '' (length=0)
'fields' => string '' (length=0)
'menu_order' => string '' (length=0)
'embed' => string '' (length=0)
'category__in' =>
array (size=0)
empty
'category__not_in' =>
array (size=0)
empty
'category__and' =>
array (size=0)
empty
'post__in' =>
array (size=0)
empty
'post__not_in' =>
array (size=0)
empty
'post_name__in' =>
array (size=0)
empty
'tag__in' =>
array (size=0)
empty
'tag__not_in' =>
array (size=0)
empty
'tag__and' =>
array (size=0)
empty
'tag_slug__in' =>
array (size=0)
empty
'tag_slug__and' =>
array (size=0)
empty
'post_parent__in' =>
array (size=0)
empty
'post_parent__not_in' =>
array (size=0)
empty
'author__in' =>
array (size=0)
empty
'author__not_in' =>
array (size=0)
empty
'ignore_sticky_posts' => boolean false
'suppress_filters' => boolean false
'cache_results' => boolean true
'update_post_term_cache' => boolean true
'update_menu_item_cache' => boolean false
'lazy_load_term_meta' => boolean true
'update_post_meta_cache' => boolean true
'post_type' => string '' (length=0)
'posts_per_page' => int 9
'nopaging' => boolean false
'comments_per_page' => string '50' (length=2)
'no_found_rows' => boolean false
'order' => string 'DESC' (length=4)
public 'tax_query' =>
object(WP_Tax_Query)[12964]
public 'queries' =>
array (size=0)
empty
public 'relation' => string 'AND' (length=3)
protected 'table_aliases' =>
array (size=0)
empty
public 'queried_terms' =>
array (size=0)
empty
public 'primary_table' => string 'wp_posts' (length=8)
public 'primary_id_column' => string 'ID' (length=2)
public 'meta_query' =>
object(WP_Meta_Query)[12963]
public 'queries' =>
array (size=2)
0 =>
array (size=1)
...
'relation' => string 'OR' (length=2)
public 'relation' => string 'AND' (length=3)
public 'meta_table' => string 'wp_postmeta' (length=11)
public 'meta_id_column' => string 'post_id' (length=7)
public 'primary_table' => string 'wp_posts' (length=8)
public 'primary_id_column' => string 'ID' (length=2)
protected 'table_aliases' =>
array (size=1)
0 => string 'wp_postmeta' (length=11)
protected 'clauses' =>
array (size=1)
'wp_postmeta' =>
array (size=5)
...
protected 'has_or_relation' => boolean false
public 'date_query' => boolean false
public 'queried_object' => *uninitialized*
public 'queried_object_id' => *uninitialized*
public 'request' => string '
SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.ID
FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_postmeta ON ( wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id )
WHERE 1=1 AND (
wp_postmeta.meta_key = 'post_views'
) AND ((wp_posts.post_type = 'post' AND (wp_posts.post_status = 'publish')))
GROUP BY wp_posts.ID
ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC
LIMIT 0, 9
' (length=352)
public 'posts' =>
array (size=0)
empty
public 'post_count' => int 0
public 'current_post' => int -1
public 'in_the_loop' => boolean false
public 'post' => *uninitialized*
public 'comments' => *uninitialized*
public 'comment_count' => int 0
public 'current_comment' => int -1
public 'comment' => *uninitialized*
public 'found_posts' => int 0
public 'max_num_pages' => int 0
public 'max_num_comment_pages' => int 0
public 'is_single' => boolean false
public 'is_preview' => boolean false
public 'is_page' => boolean false
public 'is_archive' => boolean false
public 'is_date' => boolean false
public 'is_year' => boolean false
public 'is_month' => boolean false
public 'is_day' => boolean false
public 'is_time' => boolean false
public 'is_author' => boolean false
public 'is_category' => boolean false
public 'is_tag' => boolean false
public 'is_tax' => boolean false
public 'is_search' => boolean false
public 'is_feed' => boolean false
public 'is_comment_feed' => boolean false
public 'is_trackback' => boolean false
public 'is_home' => boolean true
public 'is_privacy_policy' => boolean false
public 'is_404' => boolean false
public 'is_embed' => boolean false
public 'is_paged' => boolean false
public 'is_admin' => boolean false
public 'is_attachment' => boolean false
public 'is_singular' => boolean false
public 'is_robots' => boolean false
public 'is_favicon' => boolean false
public 'is_posts_page' => boolean false
public 'is_post_type_archive' => boolean false
private 'query_vars_hash' => string '2f64db49c5662c85abfbc42ba61e6b0c' (length=32)
private 'query_vars_changed' => boolean false
public 'thumbnails_cached' => boolean false
protected 'allow_query_attachment_by_filename' => boolean false
private 'stopwords' => null
private 'compat_fields' =>
array (size=2)
0 => string 'query_vars_hash' (length=15)
1 => string 'query_vars_changed' (length=18)
private 'compat_methods' =>
array (size=2)
0 => string 'init_query_flags' (length=16)
1 => string 'parse_tax_query' (length=15)
