Get post meta options page

• flinch85

• February 3, 2020 at 9:24 pm

Hi, I am trying to use ACF to update theme colours.

Currently I have theme-colors.php:

<?php
header("Content-type: text/css");

$primary = get_field('color', 'option');

?>

body {
  color: <?php echo $primary; ?>;
}

This works if I set $primary to a css value. But it’s not pulling the acf field in.

I’ve tried:

get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'color', true );

But obviously there’s no ID as it’s coming from options page. Does anyone know how I can use an ACF option in a php file like this?

Thanks.

• flinch85

• February 3, 2020 at 9:33 pm

OK I found:

$primary = esc_html( get_option( 'colour') );

But this is also not working.

• flinch85

• February 4, 2020 at 8:06 pm

Solved using AJAX method:

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/143176/theme-customizer-dynamic-css-php-file

• thenahidul

• June 6, 2022 at 6:23 am

I had the same problem and found the solution when I look through the database. I notice ACF ads prefix ‘options_‘ to the field for the options page.

So if your field name is ‘color’, to get the value use it like this

get_option( 'options_colour');