Reply To: Pulling Custom Post Data into a Loop – using it throughout the loop

• amberleighturner

• April 13, 2018 at 4:38 am

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.