Not returning the correct date?

Seem okay to me. But you should not using echo the_field() since it is already echo in the function. Use get_field() instead.

Hi, thanks for your response. I’ve pasted the updated code below. It’s still returning only the current date rather than the available_date meta value.

You can view this live here, https://dev.silvercreativegroup.com/op/availabilities/
— the listing with 5/02 does not contain available_date meta value so it returns todays current date.
— when you search (try 2 bedrooms) the search results will only supply todays current date.

echo  '<a href="'.get_permalink().'"><li class="availabilities-result">';
                                echo  '<div class="availabilities-result-title">';
                                echo  the_title();
                                echo  '</div>';
                                echo  '<div class="availabilities-result-image-hover">';
                                echo  'View Listing';
                                echo  '</div>';
                                echo  '<div class="availabilities-result-image">';
                                echo  get_the_post_thumbnail();
                                echo  '</div>';
                                echo  '<div class="availabilities-result-rent">';
                                echo  the_field('rent');
                                echo  '</div>';
                                echo  '<div class="availabilities-result-avail">';
								if( get_post_meta($post->ID, 'available_date', true) ) {
									get_field('available_date');
									} else {
									echo date('m/d');
								};
								echo  '</div>';
                                echo  '<div class="availabilities-result-bedrooms">';
                                echo  the_field('bedrooms');
                                echo  '</div>';
                                echo  '<div class="availabilities-result-bathrooms">';
                                echo  the_field('bathrooms');
                                echo  '</div>';
                                echo  '<div class="availabilities-result-sqft">';
                                echo  the_field('sqft');
                                echo  '</div>';
                                echo  '</li></a>';

On beginning of the loop as global $post
eg:

if ( $query->have_posts() ) {
  while ( $query->have_posts() ) {
	$query->the_post(); global $post;
     .....
}

and in your date field

if( get_field('available_date') ) {
 echo get_field('available_date');
} else {
 echo date('m/d');
}

Thank you, that worked perfectly!

I’m going to post that last part as a separate topic, may be helpful to future users.