Reply To: Can't display a Custom field in parent level taxonomy

• John Huebner

• April 13, 2018 at 12:53 am

// current term
$current_term = get_queried_object();

// child terms
// this returns an array of terms
$args = array(
  'taxonomy' => 'YOUR TAXONOMY HERE',
  'parent' => $current_term->term_id,
  // you may need other arguments depending on your needs
);
$child_terms = get_terms($args);

// you need to maybe loop through the child terms gotte
// to pick which one you want to use
// I'm assuming that you only want to use the first one

$child_term = false; // set it to false to begin with
                     // we'll use this later
if ($child_terms) {
  $child_term = $child_terms[0];
}

// make a decision
if ($child_term) {
  // get field value(s) from child term
  $color = get_field('color', $child_term);
} else {
  // get field value(s) from current term
  $color = get_field('color', $current_term);
}

// do something with the values
echo $color;