display the extra category description

• z4m3

• July 26, 2014 at 8:38 am

Hello,

I am new here, and also very new to php and wp. First of all, thanks for a wonderful plugin so I could add custom field to my posts.

I tried also to add an extra description field to my categories. The difficult side here for me is to display it in a category template.

My field name is “my_cat_desc”. And I tried to put in category.php template:

php the_field('my_cat_desc', get_query_var('cat'));

But nothing shows up ( I could put sth in the field on category admin page).

Could you please help me?

• John Huebner

• July 26, 2014 at 11:41 pm

Please see: http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/functions/the_field/

You need to construct the correct $id value to get your field, which is a combo of the taxonomy slug and the term id.

$id = 'category_'.get_queried_object()->term_id;
the_field('my_cat_desc', $id);