Create custom field for featured image of post

• Kreme

• June 4, 2020 at 5:54 am

I’ve tried using this:
https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/setting-custom-field-image-as-featured-image/
but this just gives me a 4 digit number.
I’m looking to see what I could do to grab the feature image URL instead.

• John Huebner

• June 4, 2020 at 11:35 pm

what is returning a number? Please supply code and more information about your issue.

• Kreme

• June 5, 2020 at 6:53 am

Here’s my settings:

When I use the shortcode to call this field, it displays the literal _thumbnail_id of the image (it being a 4 digit number).

Shouldn’t my settings be returning the URL, not the ID?

• John Huebner

• June 7, 2020 at 11:32 pm

The built in ACF shortcode cannot be used to show images. None of the return settings generate an image tag.

As far as returning the ID value when you have a different return value set, this is usually cased by a pre_get_posts filter somewhere in your theme or in a plugin that is interfering with the queries done by ACF