Get posts by meta key and meta value in WordPress

• 21 Mar 2020
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In this blog i will show you how to get posts in wordpress using meta_key and meta_value. For this I will pass meta_query as arguments in WP_Query function to get posts with post type.

Also Read: Get custom post types in wordpress

I have created a custom post type `books` using post type generator. you can create custom post type with post type generator and add that code in your functions.php. Use below code to get posts using meta_key and meta_value. 

$args = array(
			'post_type'      => 'books',
			'posts_per_page' => 4,
			'meta_query'     => array(
			    array(
					'key'   => 'book_type',
					'value' => 'pdf',
			    ),
			)
		);

		$query = new WP_Query( $args );
		if ( $query->posts ) {
			foreach ( $query->posts as $key => $post_id ) {
                           get_the_title();
			}
		}

$args = array(
			'post_type'      => 'books',
			'posts_per_page' => 4,
			'meta_query'     => array(
			    array(
					'key'   => 'book_type',
					'value' => 'pdf',
			    ),
			)
		);

		$query = new WP_Query( $args );
		if ( $query->posts ) {
			foreach ( $query->posts as $key => $post_id ) {
                           get_the_title();
			}
		}