Reply To: Custom Post Taxonomies and ACF

• toddstowell

• February 18, 2023 at 10:25 am

I reworked my template a bit, but still see the same error:

<?php get_header(); ?>

  <h1 class="entry-title"><?php single_term_title(); ?></h1>
  <div class="archive-meta"><?php if ( '' != the_archive_description() ) { echo esc_html( the_archive_description() ); } ?></div>

  <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
    <article class="post">
      <?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) : ?>
        <div class="thumb">
          <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?></a>
        </div>
      <?php endif; ?>
      <div class="content">
        <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
        <p class="excerpt-entry"><?php echo strip_tags( get_the_excerpt() ); ?></p>
      </div>
    </article>
  <?php endwhile; endif; ?>

  <h2>Actors</h2>
  <?php $get_actors = get_field('actors'); ?>
  <?php if( $get_actors ): ?>
    <ul>
      <?php foreach( $get_actors as $actors ): ?>
        <li><a href="<?php echo esc_url( get_term_link( $actors ) ); ?>"><?php echo esc_html( $actors->name ); ?></a></li>
      <?php endforeach; ?>
    </ul>
  <?php endif; ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

When I have nothing linked to the taxonomy, the ACF taxonomy data displays (example: https://a.cl.ly/X6uKqWrL).

In the db query, I see the the following:

SELECT t.term_id
FROM wp_terms AS t
INNER JOIN wp_term_taxonomy AS tt
ON t.term_id = tt.term_id
WHERE tt.taxonomy IN ('actor')
AND t.term_id IN ( 403,404,284 )
ORDER BY t.name ASC

Those term IDs are correct. The full display of DQ queries also looks accurate (example: https://a.cl.ly/WnumRzdq).

I take a single blog post, assign the shows taxonomy for “Broadchurch” for example (example: https://a.cl.ly/6qubm9kN) and save the post. When I refresh the taxonomy archive page, there are no queries at all for ACF, as shown here: https://a.cl.ly/P8u2ZvgJ.

My ACF setup for the field is: https://a.cl.ly/GGu7qZL8 and the location rules are: https://a.cl.ly/8Luq2mdn

I suspect that WP is overriding the ACF query entirely, or somehow preventing it from ever running in this instance where a post has a bunch of terms applied to it, but the term itself also has a term applied to it.