Reply To: Displaying post_object content within shortcode

• John Huebner

• January 23, 2020 at 5:15 am

You are using this inside of a function (shortcode)

The main thing that you’re missing is a reference $post that you need to add at the top in order to use the standard post loop

global $post;

However, I would not do this because when using a shortcode you can never know how deeply nested the custom queries are and wp_reset_postdata() will fail if your loop is nested inside an already existing secondary query loop.

Instead of using have_posts() and I would not add the global reference above, I would do the following to avoid the potential problems

if (count($output->posts)) {
  foreach ($output->posts as $post) {
    ....
    $brand = get_field('brand', $post->ID);
  }
}

So basically only use function that allow you to use the post ID rather than the normal posts loop.