Reply To: Taxonomy terms not showing up in select field (get_field_object)

• Stormwind

• November 10, 2016 at 2:27 pm

The taxonomy field does not have an array of ‘choices’, like the select field does, because the choices are loaded from the database, they are not typed out in the ACF configuration.

You should use a database query for this:

global $wpdb;
$customTaxonomy = 'category';

$sql = "
	SELECT
		te.term_id,
		te.name
	FROM $wpdb->terms te
	LEFT JOIN $wpdb->term_taxonomy tt
	ON tt.term_id = te.term_id
	WHERE tt.taxonomy = '$customTaxonomy'
";

$taxonomies = $wpdb->get_results( $sql, ARRAY_A );

if ( $taxonomies ) {
	echo '<select name="somename">';
	foreach( $taxonomies as $item ) {
		echo '<option value="' . $item['term_id'] . '">' . esc_html( $item['name'] ) . '</option>';
	}
	echo '</select>';
}