Custom WYSIWYG Field in WooCommerce Product Category

• karks88

• April 4, 2014 at 7:22 am

I’m using ACF and WooCommerce and would like to display a custom WYSIWYG field for my product categories. While I have seen this covered before, I’m still a little confused regarding just how to do this.

Here’s the code I’ve been trying out (with no luck so far):

<?php 
$term = get_field('about_this_product_category', 'product-cat');
echo $term
?>

My goal here is to display the results of this field for the current product category. I have seen where you can specify a specific product category in your code, but I’d rather have it automatically display results if possible.

Any ideas of what I’m doing wrong?

• karks88

• April 5, 2014 at 5:59 am

Eventually figured this out! FYI, here’s the code in case it helps anyone. The name of my WYSIWYG field is ‘about_this_product_category’, which you would replace with your own field name.

<?php 
 
// vars
$queried_object = get_queried_object(); 
$taxonomy = $queried_object->taxonomy;
$term_id = $queried_object->term_id;  
 
// load desc for this taxonomy term (term object)
$thumbnail = get_field('about_this_product_category', $queried_object);
 
// load desc for this taxonomy term (term string)
$thumbnail = get_field('about_this_product_category', $taxonomy . '_' . $term_id);

?>    

<?php the_field( 'about_this_product_category', $queried_object ); ?>  

I copied the archive-product.php from the WooCommerce plugin directory into a new /woocommerce/ folder inside my theme.

• roothost

• April 12, 2014 at 7:29 pm

Thanks for this, really helped me out as i have been struggling with this for a while now.

• morganfeeney

• June 15, 2014 at 2:11 am

Hi, I keep getting:

Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$taxonomy

and

Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$term_id

on the base shop page, which is an archive, however a page also.

Anyone else experiencing this? Or can explain why it’s happening?

Thanks

• mixmastermichael

• January 2, 2015 at 9:44 am

Thanks so much for this, have been searching for a solution for a couple hours! SO glad you posted this.

• Nuvonium

• January 5, 2015 at 10:56 pm

Hit the same bug on default shop page as described. Then discovered this related post under support and was able to configure working solution…

$queried_object = get_queried_object(); 
                        $taxonomy = $queried_object->taxonomy;
                        $term_id = $queried_object->term_id;  
                         
                        
                        if( get_field('about_this_product_category', $taxonomy . '_' . $term_id) ) { 
                            the_field( 'about_this_product_category', $queried_object ); 
                        };

• ooree

• September 24, 2023 at 5:07 pm

$queried_object = get_queried_object(); 
$taxonomy = $queried_object->taxonomy;
$term_id = $queried_object->term_id;  
 
// load desc for this taxonomy term (term object)
$thumbnail = get_field('category_description', $queried_object);
 
// load desc for this taxonomy term (term string)
$thumbnail = get_field('category_description', $taxonomy . '_' . $term_id);

echo '<p class="dop_widget_p">' . get_field( 'category_description', $queried_object ) . '</p>';

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