How can I count all acf repeater fields belonging to the specific post type?

• anakhha

• November 1, 2022 at 8:51 am

I am currently trying to count all ACF repeater fields that belong to the determined post type.

Post type: investors
ACF Repeater Field: suchprofile

Somehow I do not get any further. Or rather I get a value of 0.

Is this because a loop is missing? I just want to count everything. For example, if a 20 investors (post type) each have 20 suchprofil (acf reapeater field) I want to output 400.

function suchprofile_shortcode( $atts ) {
	$rows = get_sub_field('suchprofil');
	if( have_rows('suchprofil') );
	$count = count($rows);
	echo $count;
} 
add_shortcode( 'suchprofile', 'suchprofile_shortcode');

Does anyone have an idea. Tried various posts and solutions.

Best thanks
Andy

• John Huebner

• November 5, 2022 at 11:17 am

In order to do this you would need to

1. Do a WP_Query() to get all of the posts
2. Loop over the posts
3. use get_post_meta() on the repeater instead of get_field(), this will return the count of rows for the repeater rather than the field contents.
4. Add the returned values.