I’ve searched everywhere but cannot find the solution so far… hopefully someone in here knows.
Using ACF Pro, I created a Post Object field that allows the user to select a single post. For the selected post, I need to display the featured image, post title, permalink, categories (categories don’t need to link) and publish date. I can only figure out how to display the thumbnail, title and permalink. Does anyone know how to output the categories and publish date from a Post Object?
My code is below. I’ve made several attempts to display the category and all were failures, but here is one example. This throws the error “Notice: Array to string conversion… “. Which goes away if I take out all the category bits.
I work more with css than php, so any help would be appreciated 🙂
<?php
$featured_post = get_field('primary_review');
if( $featured_post ):
$permalink = get_permalink( $featured_post->ID );
$title = get_the_title( $featured_post->ID );
$categories = get_the_category($featured_post->ID);
?>
<a href="<?php echo esc_url( $permalink ); ?>"><?php echo esc_html( $title ); ?></a>
<?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
<?php echo esc_html( $categories ); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
You can get the published date with something like:
$publishDate = get_the_time('F d, Y', $featured_post->ID);
Change the format there, as needed. You’re getting the error on categories because of how you’re trying to spit out the $categories variable.
$categories will be an array of categories so to display them, you’d want to loop through the array. I don’t know what you want from the category (a link to the category, just the name, etc.) but it’d be something like:
foreach( $categories as $category ) {
echo $category->name;
}
Thank you so much @wpfieldwork, this worked like a charm!
