ACF Mutli Taxonomy with WP Query

• ForbiddenChunk

• May 19, 2020 at 2:32 am

I have a custom field in flexible content that lets admin choose the categories for the page blog (standard Posts) using multi-checkbox.

I’ve tried to output this on the front end with;

<?PHP 
    $terms = get_sub_field('category');

    $args = array( 
        'posts_per_page' => get_sub_field('number_of_articles'),
        'order' => 'DESC',
        // 'cat' => '119,77'
        'cat' => $terms
    );
    $loop = new WP_Query( $args );
    while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); 
?>
    <?php get_template_part( 'components/blog_article' ); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>      
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>

And get an error and can’t seem to find a solution that’s been done before.

I know I can get the list of categories using;

<?php 
	$terms = get_sub_field('category');
	if( $terms ): 
?>
    <?php foreach( $terms as $term ): ?>
        <p><?php echo esc_html( $term->term_id ); ?></p>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

But struggling to work out how to merge the two…