Reply To: Add Field to before_widget in functions.php

• James

• June 15, 2016 at 1:38 pm

Hi @toad78

The issue is because you were trying to echo a variable inside a string. Also, if you want to use a custom field in the functions.php file, you need to get it in that file too. It should be something like this:

$backgroundimage = get_field('widget_background_image', 99);

register_sidebar( array(
    'name'          => __( 'Widgets', 'tempestcorp' ),
    'id'            => 'page-widget',
    'description'   => __( 'Appears on any of the assigned pages.', 'tempestcorp' ),
    'before_widget' => '<section id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s"><div style="background-image: url(' . $backgroundimage['url']; . ');">',
    'after_widget'  => '</div></section>',
    'before_title'  => '<h2 class="widget-title">',
    'after_title'   => '</h2>',
) );

Where ’99’ is the object ID where the custom fields are located.

If you have the time, please check PHP tutorials here: http://www.w3schools.com/php/.

Thanks 🙂