Reply To: Returning Custom Field Values (including Taxonomy Terms) on Term archive pages

• GeneralReason

• September 20, 2016 at 4:03 pm

@hube2: I’m able to now retrieve an array with:

<?php
$queried_object = get_queried_object();
$taxonomy = $queried_object->taxonomy;
$term_id = $queried_object->term_id;

$value = get_field( 'test_field', $taxonomy.'_'.$term_id);
if( $value ) {
    echo $value;
} else {
    echo 'empty';
}
?>

Why cant the_field() do what echo does here?

I retrieve an array when the custom field is text & get an error message when its a taxonomy term:

“Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Term could not be converted to string”

I also retrieve an array when the custom field is an image.

Looks like we now have to iterate through the string array in order to show the value; brings back the 2nd aspect of my question.

How do you best display the returned string(s)/array on a taxonomy term archive page:
-if ACF field value is text?
-if ACF field value is an image?
-if ACF field value is a single or multiple taxonomy terms?
-if I would like to display the term values as linkable vs non linkable?