Link Genres in Advanced Custom Fields - php

Question

I am using Advanced Custom Fields. I want to link the values (eg. thriller, suspense, etc.) of Genre custom field so that when the user clicks on one of the values they will get a filtered list of posts. For eg. when they click Thriller they will get all the posts in the Thriller category.
My code so far for the ACF is as follows:
<!-- Entry Content Start -->
<article <?php post_class('entry clearfix fitvids'); ?>>
<div class="inner-post">
<div class="cover">
<div class="post-image">
<?php
if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { // check if the post has a Post Thumbnail assigned to it.
the_post_thumbnail();
}
?>
</div>
<div class="custom-fields">
<?php the_meta(); ?>
<div class="ad">
<img src="http://lorempixel.com/160/600" alt="">
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="the-content">
<?php the_content(); // This is your main post content output ?>
</div>
</div><!-- /inner-post -->
</article><!-- /entry -->
Is there a solution to this?

Answer 1

You should create a page with custom page template. In this template you should pull posts based on the custom field passed via $_GET parameter. For example: $movies = get_posts(array('meta_key'=>'your_custom_key', 'meta_value'=>$_GET['genre'])); Then you should generate appropriate links to access this page, which should link to our custom page including genre in our $_GET variable. For example the page's slug is movies. Then our links will have the following structure: /movies/?genre=custom_field_value.