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I’ve already read a lot, but still not able to resolve quite simple (from my point of view) problem: how do I show only such entries, which one of custom fields has a certain value?
For example I have weblog with custom fields: ‘lyrics’ , ‘written_by’. I would like to show only such entries, which ‘written_by’ value is ‘Great singer’. Is possible to do that using parameters or any other way?

I’ve already read a lot, but still not able to resolve quite simple (from my point of view) problem: how do I show only such entries, which one of custom fields has a certain value?
For example I have weblog with custom fields: ‘lyrics’ , ‘written_by’. I would like to show only such entries, which ‘written_by’ value is ‘Great singer’. Is possible to do that using parameters or any other way?

Just use a conditional:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="weblog1" other parameters}
{if written_by =="Great singer"}
whatever you want to do or show here e.g.
{lyrics}
{/if}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Thank you very much, but I already thought about that. I am just afraid - if I have, let’s say 5000 entries, will EE loop through all off them and output only several with this condition? I think it will be too hard to handle for server. Maybe better I should use {exp:query} in this case?

Thta’s another option but I really couldn’t tell you if it would be faster.
You’ll have to test this on your own server I guess 😊

You might also check out Mark Huot’s custom fields in weblog entries extension.  It’s in the extensions forum here =)