Display category from taxonomy by using shortcode

• nattakorn

• March 28, 2018 at 4:04 pm

I have set the taxonomy field like this

But when I use the shortcode [acf field="fieldname"] to display my category field. It shows the category id not the name of category.

How can I show the category name by using shortcode?

• John Huebner

• March 28, 2018 at 10:57 pm

As it says on this page https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/shortcode/

Limitations
• Only works for simple text based values

If you want to use shortcodes for other fields then you need to build your own shortcodes https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API. The Taxonomy field stores the ID value of the terms and the build in shortcode only shows the value that stored.