[Resolved] Conditional display posts based on custom user meta

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[Dan Kitsmiller]

I've created a view that displays a list of posts from the "Homes" custom post type. I also have a custom user meta field called "Favorites" that contains a list of post IDs that the user has marked as a "favorite".

I'm trying to add conditional logic to the loop out put of the view, so that displays a list of the current user's "favorite" posts.

I need to create a conditional argument that compares the post ID of the current loop item against the post IDs saved in the current user's meta. So only if the "Home" post ID is present in the user's "Favorites" metadata, the loop item is displayed.

I've made several attempts to evaluate the conditions, but I'm unsure how to compare against a multi-value user meta field like this. Thanks for your help... your support team is outstanding 🙂

[Luo Yang]

Hello,

How do you setup the user field "Favorites"?

If it is a multiple instances field, you can try these:
1) Create a post view:
- Query "Home" posts
- Filter by:
Include only posts with IDs set by the View shortcode attribute "ids" eg. [wpv-view name="view-name" ids="1"]
- In view's loop, display the home post information

2) Display above post view shortcode, and pass user field "Favorites" value as shortcode attribute, like this:

[wpv-view name="your-view-slug" ids="[types usermeta='favorites' output='raw' separator=', ' current_user='true'][/types]"][types usermeta='favorites' format='FIELD_VALUE' separator=', ' user_is_author='true'][/types]

Please replace "your-view-slug" with your view slug of step 1, replace "favorites" with your custom user field slug

More help:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views/filtering-views-query-by-post-id/

[Dan Kitsmiller]

Hi Lou, thanks for your speedy reply. I tried your suggestion, but it returns the following error:
Notice: Array to string conversion in /var/www/wp-content/plugins/types/application/models/view/decorator/separator.php on line 22

The code you sent in your last reply looks like it actually contains an extra shortcode at the end. I tried the following two variations:

Version 1:

[wpv-view name="test-favorites-view" ids="[types usermeta='simplefavorites' output='raw' separator=', ' current_user='true'][/types]"]

Version 2:

[wpv-view name="test-favorites-view" ids="[types usermeta='simplefavorites' format='FIELD_VALUE' separator=', ' user_is_author='true'][/types]"]

I think that the "array to string" conversion error may be due to the fact that the user meta field contains some text in addition to the post IDs. The field was created by the "Favorites" plugin by Kyle Phillips: hidden link

Here is a sample of the meta field contents for a user:
1, 2854, 281, 731, 447, 467, 1, 1, Default List, 2854, 281, 731, 447, 467

I'm not sure what some of these values, or the term "Default List" represent, but the values after the words "Default List" (2854, 281, 731, 447, 467) are the correct post IDs of the user favorites. This is consistent for every user.

Thanks again for your help!!

[Luo Yang]

How do you setup the custom user field "favorites"?
Please take a screenshot for it, I need to test it in my localhost, thanks

[Dan Kitsmiller]

The custom user field was created by the "Favorites" plugin I mentioned. I exported a CSV file of my Users database, populated with sample data for you here: hidden link

The serialized data you are looking for is in the "simplefavorites" column.

[Luo Yang]

Your CSV file does not help.

I have tried the plugin "Favorites" download from:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/favorites/

You can try these:
1) In your theme file, functions.php, add below codes:

add_shortcode( 'my-fav-ids', function($atts){
	$arr = array();
	if(function_exists('get_user_favorites')){
		$arr = get_user_favorites(get_current_user_id(), $site_id = null, $filters = null);
	}
	$res = '';
	if($arr){
		$res = implode(',', $arr);
	}
	return $res;
});

This will create a shortcode [my-fav-ids]

2) Dashboard-> Toolset-> Settings-> Front-end Content
in section "Third-party shortcode arguments", add the shortcode name: my-fav-ids

3) Use above shortcode like this:
[wpv-view name="test-favorites-view" ids="[my-fav-ids]"]

[Dan Kitsmiller]

That worked perfectly, and is a much better solution. Thank you for helping me so quickly!