Circling back to this to provide a solution for someone who may be looking for it.
I had three custom post types before:
product
container
scent
I changed the container and scent from custom post type to taxonomy.
Again, the goal was to put content in a format that I could pull, based on the product custom field values (using ACF custom fields).
Thus: Lavender Mason Candle $20
Where “Lavender Mason Candle” is the product, “lavender” is the scent, and “mason candle” is the container. The $20 comes from a custom field on the container taxonomy.
Solution (this is for a taxonomy.php page, but the main part at the bottom could very well work on others.)
<ul>
<?php
// Get the current page taxonomy term info
$term = get_term_by( 'slug', get_query_var( 'term' ), get_query_var( 'taxonomy' ) );
// args
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'products', //
'tax_query' => array(
array(
'taxonomy' => 'scents',
'field' => 'slug',
'terms' => $term,
),
)
);
// New Query
$custom_query = new WP_Query( $args );?>
<?php if( $custom_query->have_posts() ) : while( $custom_query->have_posts() ) : $custom_query->the_post(); ?>
<li>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('thumbnail'); ?></a>
<!-- For part of the title, I want to temporarily pull info from the $container -->
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title();?>: $<?php $container = get_field('container'); if( $container ): the_field('base_price', $container); ?>+<?php endif; ?>">
<!-- After the title, I want to revert back to the original post data-->
<p><?php the_title();?></p>
<!--Now back again to the container-->
<?php $container = get_field('container'); if( $container ): ?>
<p class="price">$<?php the_field('base_price', $container); ?>+</p>
<?php endif; ?>
<!--And back again to the original post data-->
</a>
</li>
<?php endwhile; wp_reset_postdata();?>
</ul>
This is the main worker to help selectively pick what goes from where:
<?php $container = get_field('container'); if( $container ): ?>
<p class="price">$<?php the_field('base_price', $container); ?>+</p>
<?php endif; ?>
Hope this helps someone else and saves them three days of searching for answers for something similar.
