ACF on home.php

• ForbiddenChunk

• January 16, 2020 at 9:06 pm

I’ve read the article about using get_option('page_for_posts') and never had any problems, but for some reason, it’s not working today and I’m baffled!

Below is everything I’ve tried and nothing pulls through despite fields being populated and everything looking correct…

<h1>Here - <?php the_sub_field('show_latest', get_option('page_for_posts') ) ?></h1>

<?php if ( get_sub_field( 'show_latest', get_option('page_for_posts') ) == 'Latest Event' ): ?>
    Latest Event
<?php elseif ( get_sub_field( 'show_latest', get_option('page_for_posts') ) == 'Latest News' ): ?>
    Latest News
<?php else: ?>
	Normal
<?php endif; ?>

<?php the_field( 'banner_heading', get_option('page_for_posts') ); ?>

• John Huebner

• January 17, 2020 at 12:11 am

If you are getting sub fields then you need a loop, the loop will need the post ID but the sub fields do not. https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/how-to-get-values-from-another-post/

if (have_rows('repeater_field_name', $post_id)) {
  while (have_rows('repeater_field_name', $post_id)) {
    the_row();
    the_sub_field('sub_field_name');
  }
}

• ForbiddenChunk

• January 17, 2020 at 1:14 am

Hi John,

That didn’t work sadly…

I have the home.php page and want a banner, in the back-end I have fields created for banner_heading etc. and just want them to appear.

However, it doesn’t despite trying different techniques including the above.

• John Huebner

• January 17, 2020 at 1:58 am

Give me more information about the field.

Field type

Field settings

field group location rules

• ForbiddenChunk

• January 17, 2020 at 3:04 am

These are the fields in ACF (flex);
https://ibb.co/QKTMHp9

and these are how they look in the blogs page;
https://ibb.co/rvb7bPT

• John Huebner

• January 17, 2020 at 3:59 am

I’m a little confused so I’m guessing.

You are trying to show this one flex layout on a page other than the page where it has been added?

• ForbiddenChunk

• January 17, 2020 at 4:36 am

Sorry didn’t mean to confuse.

I’m trying to show this flex layout on home.php which is blogs page, showing all my blogs.

Each page has a banner (which works fine on other pages) but doesn’t on the blogs page.

• John Huebner

• January 17, 2020 at 4:50 am

I think I may understand your issue.

I will need to see some code from home.php, I don’t need all of it. What I need is to understand where in relation to “The Loop” you are trying to show the for the flex field.

• ForbiddenChunk

• January 18, 2020 at 1:47 am

Hi John,

It seems you were right near the start and my brain wasn’t connecting the dots.

This code cracked it;

<?php
    if( have_rows('content') ):
    while ( have_rows('content') ) : the_row();
?>

Thanks for the continued help 🙂