gettimg custom field values from parent and grandparent page?

• herrfischer

• August 9, 2013 at 1:01 am

i have a page structure like this:

– food
– – vegetables
– – – tomatos

on the “food” page i have a custom field called “country”. now i want that the 2 cild pages get the values from this field automatically. i know i could do this with the ID (http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/how-to/how-to-get-values-from-another-page/), but this is not what i need.

(sorry i meant “getting custom field … can’t edit the headline)

• wells5609

• August 9, 2013 at 9:09 am

You could use the current page’s ‘post_parent’ field as the argument for get_ancestors() to ascend the page hierarchy:

 global $post;
$parent = $post->post_parent;
$grandparents = get_ancestors( $parent, 'page');
$country = get_field( 'country', $grandparents[0] );

Haven’t tested this but should work

• herrfischer

• August 10, 2013 at 4:06 am

thank you very much, now this works:

<?php
global $wp_query;
$postid = $wp_query->post->ID;
echo get_post_meta($postid, 'country', true);
?>

<?php $country = get_post_meta($post->post_parent, 'country', true); 
echo $country;
?>

<?php
global $post;
$parent = $post->post_parent;
$grandparents = get_ancestors( $parent, 'page');
$country = get_field( 'country', $grandparents[0] );
echo $country;
?>

• hehe

• August 16, 2013 at 6:52 pm

Hi,
i would like to reopen /reask here.
thanks herrfischer, youtr code works well.
but on one point i have difficulties and tried different things, but cant get it to work.
i have a image field, and on the grandparentspage it displays fine, but on the page above it returns the id and not the url. the same with a link field.
should be somethins easy, but i got lost.

thanks a lot!
hehe

• rikardo85

• November 16, 2013 at 12:02 am

I have tried the above but I am not having much success.

I am using a repeater field but want the same results (display parent values on a sub page).

The code I am using on the parent page is:

<?php
    $rows = get_field('currentShows');
     if($rows)
      { 
       foreach($rows as $row)
	{ ?>
	 <li>
           <a href="<?php echo $row['currentLink']; ?>">
             <?php echo $row['currentLinkText']; ?>
           </a>
         </li>
	<?php
	    } //end for
	     }// endif 
	else {
	      echo 'Coming soon';
	     }
	     ?>

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks

• herrfischer

• November 16, 2013 at 1:28 am

this way i get the title of the parent page, maybe the code helps you:

<?php if(is_page()):
    $toppage=array_reverse(get_post_ancestors($post->ID));
    if($toppage[1]){
        echo '<h1 class="site-title">'.get_the_title($toppage[1]).'</h1>';
    }
    endif;
?>

• rikardo85

• November 16, 2013 at 3:40 am

Thank you, I have used the following to get the required results:

 <?php if(get_field('currentShows', $post->post_parent)) { ?>
			       
<?php while(has_sub_field('currentShows', $post->post_parent)): ?>
				 
 <li><a href="<?php the_sub_field('currentLink'); ?>"><?php the_sub_field('currentLinkText'); ?></a></li>
				   
<?php endwhile; ?>
	<?php }
				
	else {
	echo 'Coming soon';
	} ?>

Thanks

• herrfischer

• November 16, 2013 at 4:03 am

glad it works!