Can't display oEmbed in Widget

• huwrowlands

• September 22, 2016 at 12:25 am

I’ve created a simple widget and added the oEmbed custom field to that widget to display a youtube video.

I have a conditional check but it keeps retuning ‘No Video’, instead of displaying the video.

Any ideas what the issue could be? I have tripled checked the field slug etc

	public function widget( $args, $instance ) {
		echo $args['before_widget'];
		if ( ! empty( $instance['title'] ) ) {
			echo $args['before_title'] . apply_filters( 'widget_title', $instance['title'] ) . $args['after_title'];
		}
		
		//echo __( esc_attr( 'Hello, World!' ), 'text_domain' );
		
		if ( get_field( 'youtube_share_url', 'widget_' . $widget_id ) ) :	
			echo the_field( 'youtube_share_url', 'widget_' . $widget_id );	
			echo 'Video Present.';
		else :
			echo 'No Video.';
		endif;
		
		echo $args['after_widget'];
	}

• John Huebner

• September 22, 2016 at 5:00 am

in your code $widget_id has no value. I’m not sure where to get it from in this context but it should be an argument in either $args or $instance. I’ve done some looking, and even looking and it’s hard to tell I think it may be $instance->id but I’m not sure

• huwrowlands

• September 22, 2016 at 5:17 am

Got it!

the_field( 'youtube_share_url', 'widget_' . $args['widget_id']

• John Huebner

• September 22, 2016 at 5:41 am

I’ll need to remember that. I’ve built a few widgets, just not with ACF yet.