Bug regarding fields on custom taxonomies

• lennarto

• October 22, 2013 at 1:12 am

I seem to have stumbled upon a problem regarding related posts on taxonomies.

I am currently setting up a webshop using woocommerce, and i need a realtion to a blog page from within the product.

So ive setup a relation from within my brands to a brandpage via the relation widget.

$brand = get_the_terms($product->ID, 'product_brand');
$brand = reset($brand);
if( sizeof( $brand ) != 0 ){
	$brandId = (int)$brand->term_id;
	get_field('brand_relation', $brandId);
}

Just returned a false, but after a bit of fiddling ive found that ACF adds a option to the database relating to the post.

So my solution were as follows.

$brand = get_the_terms($product->ID, 'product_brand');
$brand = reset($brand);
if( sizeof( $brand ) != 0 ){
	$brandId = (int)$brand->term_id;

	$brandPostId = get_option('product_brand_' . $brandId . '_brand_taxonomy_relation');

	$relatedPost = get_post($brandPostId[0]));

}

Dont know if this is a bug, but i couldt seem to find a solution in here.

• Elliot

• October 22, 2013 at 3:43 pm

Hi @lennarto

It is always important to read the docs. In particular, the tutorial which covers how to load data from a taxonomy term:

You have used an incorrect $post_id parameter, that is what the problem is:

http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/how-to/how-to-get-values-from-a-taxonomy-term/

Thanks
E

• lennarto

• October 22, 2013 at 6:01 pm

Oooh, yea, ive must have been in quite a caffine haze when searching!

Thanks Elliot.