mljosh
1
Browser: Zen (Firefox based)
OS: macOS.
Video: Short screen recording that illustrates this issue (free tool: jam.dev)
Version: 1.12.3
I have a query looping over a custom post type ‘podcasts’:
This uses a template to add the ‘cards’ and has pagination targeting the query by name:

The card template has a section containing the following elements:

All using queries like this to return users from an ACF user field:
The first page in the archive works fine and returns all the cards with the host, featuring and guest fields:
But if you visit another page /page/#/
, the fields do not populate:
If I use AJAX pagination, the fields populate fine, but if I go to the URL directly, they do not.
Infinite scroll also works.
Matej
2
Hello @mljosh and welcome to the forum!
Can you try to:
- Disable “Custom query (PHP)”
- Enable “Disable query Merge”
- Enable “Custom query (PHP)” again.
Does it work then?
Matej
mljosh
3
That’s done it! Thank you 
That was driving me crazy!
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Matej
4
Perfect, I’m glad that it works 
As an additional info, you can also use the following filter, to disable query merge for certain loop.
I’ll mark the topic as no-bug, as it’s not really a bug 
Best regards,
Matej