Hi,
I’m pretty new to this and need some basic help.
I have created a template for my page ‘stockists’, attached that to a page in wordpress (also stockists) and used advanced custom fields & repeater fields to add my content. When I visit the page in question in the back end of wordpress I can see my custom fields and edit them just fine.
When I ‘view page’ however, I see nothing. I’ve added the following code to the page-template.php:
<?php the_field ('stockists'); ?>
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help a newbie! 🙂
Have you put the code inside of the loop? The loop is the while loop looking something like:
<?php while(have_posts()): the_post(); ?>
Like this?
<?php while(have_posts()): the_post(); ?>
<p><?php the_field('stockists'); ?></p>
<?php endwhile; ?>
My page displays the header and footer (just under the header) and it says ‘array, array’ where the page and it’s custom fields should be.
Hi @Damsel
What kind of field is ‘stockists’?
From what you have posted, it looks liek the returned value is a bunch of array’s
Perhaps you need to read over the docs and see how to use the functions to render out the HTML into your template.
Thanks
E
Thanks to both for your help. I was using the_repeater_field and only calling in the_field! Love that moment when the penny drops!
Hi @Damsel
Glad you found a solution but perhaps you could provide a clearer explanation of the solution for other readers?
Thanks
E
Sure. I purchased the add-on for “repeater” fields, to make it easier to add several lines of information.
The initial code above just calls in the field ‘stockists’ (the name of the ACF I created). What I needed to do was call in the ‘repeater_field’ followed by each repeated field. Here’s the correct code..
<?php while(the_repeater_field('stockists')): ?>
<div class="stockists"><br />
<strong><?php the_sub_field('stockists_name'); ?></strong><br />
<?php the_sub_field('address'); ?><br />
<?php the_sub_field('address_2'); ?><br />
<?php the_sub_field('city'); ?><br />
<strong><?php the_sub_field('phone_number'); ?></strong><br />
<?php the_sub_field('website'); ?><br />
So ‘stockists’ was the original custom field. Name, address, city etc are the repeater fields.
