Filter content by field from two different post types

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Hi!

How do I filter content by the same field from two different post types?

So I have two pages (post types) with different content. The first one is episodes and the other is blog posts. In both I have a field called “Theme”. I want to create a template file that shows all posts with a given theme value from both episode and blog post. So the visitor should be able to click on a theme value and the all episodes and blog posts with that theme.

The theme value should also be in the URL. I don’t use the panel, only FTP.

It’s probably easy but I can’t get it to work with my knowledge.

My website is: https://bibelpodden.se

Translation from Swedish to English if it helps:
Alla avsnitt = All Episodes (<- in the burger menu)
Bloggen = The Blog (<- in the burger menu)
Tema = Theme (<- in the post meta on every episode and blog post)

Thank you very much in advance!

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Well, you are already filtering, so basically all that needs to be done is merge both collections in your new template:

<?php
$posts = page('blog')->children()->visible();
$episodes = page('episode')->children()->visible();
$allTypes = new Pages(array($posts, $episodes));
if($tema = param('tema')) {
  $allTypes = $allTypes->filterBy('tema', $tema);
}

Note that your filtering links have to link to this page. I don’t know if you want to have a list of links at the top of that page? Or do you want the current tags to link to this page?

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Thank you very much @texnixe! Some minor changes to your code and solved.

For someone seeing this there is an parenthesis missing after if($tema = param('tema'). It should be if($tema = param('tema'))

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Shame on me, I corrected it above. Not sure if new glasses or a bigger screen or maybe better a combination of both would actually help. Or more sleep… :sleeping:

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