Field created – Value missing

• photoman6300

• February 28, 2015 at 12:47 pm

Hi,

I never used that plugin which looks great, and what I want to achieve is quite basic, so I hope somebody can help !

Here is my problem:

I created a field named « subtitle » which is supposed to appear on an overlay, on the portfolio thumbnails of my theme.

I inserted the code like that:

$gallery .= '<h2 class="portfolio-title">' . $title . '</h2>';
$gallery .= '<h3 class="portfolio-subtitle">' .the_field('subtitle') .'</h3>';								
$gallery .= '<span>' . ut_generate_cat_list( $portfolio_cats ) . '</span>’;

In the front-end, I see that the field is there, but no value appears in it (see Firebug screenshot).

What do I need to get the value ?
Do I need to insert a function in my function.php file ?
Did I make a mistake in my code ?

Thanks in advance for helping !

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• James

• April 7, 2016 at 12:19 am

Hi @photoman6300,

Thanks for the post.

Please note that custom fields called outside the main posts() loop will require an additional post id parameter to be added to the get_field() or the_field() function so as to tell ACF where to fetch data from.