Post Query with Meta Key stopped working

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Hello,

I am working on a magazine website that has a large amount of posts, submissions, etc. There is about 60K+ posts/submissions on the site right now. I don’t know when it happened specifically, but today I noticed that my featured posts section has stopped working.

The functionality is simple. When editing a post there is a checkbox on the side what when you check it, an ACF meta key by the name “featured\_post” becomes true. Then in the featured post section, my WP Query runs:

$args = [
‘numberposts’ => 1,
“posts_per_page” => 1,
‘post_type’ => ‘post’,
‘meta_key’ => ‘featured_post’,
‘meta_value’ => true
];

$the_query = new WP_Query($args);

Like I said, this WAS working and now it isn’t returning anything. I commented out the meta\_key and meta\_value arguments and it returns posts. I have also tried adding ‘meta\_compare’ => ‘LIKE’ / ‘=’ as a last argument and that did not work.

I have tried rewriting the meta as a meta\_query:

‘meta_query’ => array(
array(
‘key’ => ‘featured_post’,
‘value’ => true
)
)

I’ve also tried including a compare argument after the ‘value’ argument too:

‘compare’ => ‘LIKE’
and also tried
‘compare’ => ‘=’

I’ve also tried using square brackets instead of calling array(). And tried calling the meta\_value as 1 and ‘1’ instead of true.

And I have also tried wp\_reset\_postdata(), wp\_reset\_query(), and even remove\_all\_actions(‘pre\_get\_posts’) at the same time, different times, and a mix.

I have also looked in the database and I get see the meta\_value in the postmeta table.

I am absolutely at a loss as to why this stopped working. Any help is appreciated.

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