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Jandon
Jandon

Reputation: 625

WordPress - Get posts for each user

For a project with students I use WordPress with Timber (TWIG) + ACF

Fot this project I created 3 custom post types : dissertation, subject-imposed and subject-free

Each student can create only ONE post by custom post type (I created a restriction for that).

But now I would like to display a list with the name of each student and their 3 posts.

A list like that :

Nicolas Mapple

Brenda Smith

To begin I tried to get the ID of each student :

$students = get_users( array(
    'role'    => 'student',
    'orderby' => 'user_nicename',
    'order'   => 'ASC',
    'has_published_posts' => true
));

$students_id = array();

foreach ($students as $student) {
    $students_id[] = $student->ID;
}

After to get all posts from these ID :

$get_posts_students = get_posts( array(
    'author' => $students_id,
    'post_type' => array('dissertation', 'subject-imposed', 'subject-free')
));

$context['list_of_students'] = $get_posts_students;

I got the error urldecode() expects parameter 1 to be string and an array but with all posts, not grouped by student

Can I have some help please ? How to group posts by student ?

UPDATE - better but not complete (solution by @disinfor) :

With the get_posts in the foreach I got posts grouped. But I don't have the name of the student in each group.

$students = get_users( array(
    'role'    => 'student',
    'orderby' => 'rand',
    'has_published_posts' => true
));

$students_posts = array();

foreach ($students as $student) {
    $students_posts[] = get_posts( array(
        'author' => $student->ID,
        'post_type' => array('dissertation', 'subject-imposed', 'subject-free')
    ));
}

$context['students_posts'] = $students_posts;

I got an array like that, I would like the name of the student in each group : enter image description here

Upvotes: 1

Views: 303

Answers (1)

disinfor
disinfor

Reputation: 11533

You can include the student's name into the array using get_user_meta():

foreach ($students as $student) {
    // Get the first name from user meta.
    $first_name = get_user_meta( $student->ID, 'first_name');
    // Get the last name from user meta.
    $last_name = get_user_meta( $student->ID, 'last_name');
    // Add a new array key for "name". The first name and last name return as arrays, so we use [0] to get the first index.
    $students_posts['name'] = $first_name[0] . ' ' . $last_name[0];
    $students_posts[] = get_posts( array(
        'author' => $student->ID,
        'post_type' => array('dissertation', 'subject-imposed', 'subject-free')
    ));
}

$context['students_posts'] = $students_posts;

Upvotes: 0

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