Does not work with “User” field type

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  • Plugin Author Mateusz Gbiorczyk

    (@mateuszgbiorczyk)

    Hi @xzorro,

    Thank you for your message.

    Tell me please, how do you imagine handling this type of field?

    Best, Mateusz

    Thread Starter xzorro

    (@xzorro)

    To publish a custom data type there is an ACF -link to the user. The task is to search for publications associated with a user’s name , with a part of the name.

    Plugin Author Mateusz Gbiorczyk

    (@mateuszgbiorczyk)

    @xzorro Thank you for your answer!

    Unfortunately, such a thing is impossible. ACF only stores the user ID in the database. To do what you mention querying the database would be very, very complicated. This means that its efficiency would be drastically low. This is because WordPress stores information in two tables – wp_posts and wp_postmeta. Increasing the complexity of the query will make such a query fail.

    I’m very sorry, but unfortunately we have some limitations due to the WordPress structure and the data structure of the ACF plugin. I hope you understand this.

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