Extract individual category name + link for repeater field

• Lisa Long

• November 28, 2018 at 4:43 am

Hello!

I have 3 cards set up as a repeater. Each card contains an image, the category title, and a link to its specific category index page.

In ACF, via taxonomy, my ‘category_name’ is set as a term object.

My image for each card loads.

I am struggling with correctly extracting the category name and category link.

I have reviewed this forum for the past 3 days and tried numerous variations. Thanks in advance for help. Here’s my current code.

    <!-- start REPEATING THIS CONTENT - ICON/class card wrapper -->
    <?php if(have_rows('category_preview_offering')): ?>

    <div class="class-card-wrapper">

      <?php while(have_rows('category_preview_offering')): the_row();
        //Vars
        $image = get_sub_field('image');
        $term = get_sub_field('category_name');
        $taxonomy = 'category_name';
        $term_link = get_term_link($term, $taxonomy);

        if($term): ?>

        <div>
        <!-- start card one -->
        <!--  <a href="/index.php?cat=4"> -->
        <a href="">
            <div class="icon_individual_card grow">

                <img src="<?php echo $image['url']; ?>" alt="<?php echo $image['alt']; ?>">

                <p class="icon_text_color blog_category_title"><?php echo $term->slug; ?>

            </div>
        </a>
      <?php endif; ?>
      </div>
        <!-- end card one -->
      <?php endwhile; ?>

      <?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
<!-- end ICON/class card wrapper -->
</section>

<!-- end BLOG CATEGORIES 3 ICON/class cards -->

• John Huebner

• November 29, 2018 at 3:23 am

This $taxonomy = 'category_name'; appears to be the name of the field and it should be the name of the taxonomy. If you’re using the built in WP category taxonomy it should be $taxonomy = 'category';

• Lisa Long

• November 29, 2018 at 7:29 am

Thank you! Your answer was a part of my solution. For anyone else who stumbles upon this thread and wants to do something similar, here’s my code that works in my project.

    <!-- start REPEATING THIS CONTENT - ICON/class card wrapper -->
    <?php if(have_rows('category_preview_offering')): ?>

    <div class="class-card-wrapper">

      <?php while(have_rows('category_preview_offering')): the_row();
        //Vars
        $image = get_sub_field('image');
        $term = get_sub_field('category_name');
        $taxonomy = 'category';
        $term_link = get_category_link($term[0]->term_id);

        if($term): ?>

        <div>
        <!-- start card one -->
        <!--  <a href="/index.php?cat=4"> -->
        <a href="<?php echo $term_link; ?>">
            <div class="icon_individual_card grow">

                <img src="<?php echo $image['url']; ?>" alt="<?php echo $image['alt']; ?>">

                <p class="icon_text_color blog_category_title"><?php echo $term[0]->name; ?></p>
            </div>
        </a>
      <?php endif; ?>
      </div>
        <!-- end card one -->
      <?php endwhile; ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
<!-- end ICON/class card wrapper -->
</section>

<!-- end BLOG CATEGORIES 3 ICON/class cards -->