Displaying taxonomy in shortcode loop

• markbritton

• January 17, 2019 at 3:34 am

Please help – i am trying to display the cat ID as the class of the looped a tag so I can colour the background dependent on the category but I cannot get it to work. Any ideas where I am going wrong?

function upcomingEvents_shortcode() {

    $today = date('Ymd');
    $terms = get_field('eventcategory');
    $upcomingeventsshortcode = new WP_Query(array(
			  'post_type' => 'event',
			  'posts_per_page'  => 3,
              'meta_key' => 'start',
              'meta_query' => array(
                array(
                     'key'     => 'start',
                     'value'   => $today,
                     'compare' => '>=',
                     'type'    => 'DATETIME',
                )),
			  'orderby' => 'meta_value',
              'order' => 'ASC'
			   ));
    
   if($upcomingeventsshortcode->have_posts()) : while($upcomingeventsshortcode->have_posts()) : $upcomingeventsshortcode->the_post(); 
        $color = get_field('colour', 'term_'.$term->term_id());
        $upcomingEventsLink .= get_the_permalink();
        $upcomingEventsTitle = get_the_title();
        $upcomingEventsDate = get_field(start, false, false);
        $upcomingEventsDay = date("j", strtotime($upcomingEventsDate));
        $upcomingEventsMonth = date("M", strtotime($upcomingEventsDate));
        $upcomingEventsOutput .= "
        
        <div class='event-summary'> 

            <a class='event-summary__date t-center $color' href='$upcomingEventsLink'>
                <span class='event-summary__month'>$upcomingEventsMonth</span>
                <span class='event-summary__day'>$upcomingEventsDay</span>  
              </a>
            <div class='event-summary__content'>
                <span class='event-summary__title headline headline--tiny'><a href='$upcomingEventsLink'>$upcomingEventsTitle</a></span>
                </div>
        </div>";
    
    
    endwhile; else: $upcomingEventsOutput .="nothing found.";
        
    endif;
    wp_reset_query();     
    
    return $upcomingEventsOutput . '<span class="events_shortcode__allevents"><a class="btn btn--blue" href="https://www.fyldecoastccgs.nhs.uk/news/upcoming-events/">View all  upcoming events</a></span>';

• John Huebner

• January 18, 2019 at 12:19 am

add

global $post;

to the top of your function.