[Help Please ] Can't get fields or their values

• hussam

• September 3, 2016 at 1:12 am

I just installed ACF Pro for the first time. I created a test field in a test group assigned to a user. I can see the field on the user page with a defined value.

I tried all the functions listed on the docs to retrieve the field or its value in my code but Im failing.

I tried:

get_field( “test_field”, “user_1” );
get_field( “test_field” );

and the object functions as well.. I dont even see the custom field in the user meta.. what am I missing?

• ractoon

• September 3, 2016 at 6:14 am

Is the user you’ve saved data for user 1?

This code:

get_field( 'test_field', 'user_1' );

Gets the data for user ID 1. If you wanted user ID 9 you’d need to do:

get_field( 'test_field', 'user_9' );

For example.

If you’re not seeing the data even in the wp_usermeta table something else may be going on as well.

• John Huebner

• September 3, 2016 at 11:01 pm

Can you please provide the code you are using to output the values? or is what you posted exactly what you added to your template to show the value?

get_field( “test_field”, “user_1” );

Try

echo get_field('test_field', 'user_1');

or

the_field('test_field', 'user_1');