How can you output the Field Label?

• darrenbachan

• June 9, 2016 at 1:10 pm

I’ve read a lot of articles where it said you need to grab the field key value. I did a var dump and saw “label”, could I not somehow target that and pull it? Right now I need to manually type it out but being able to grab the label so it’s dynamic would be way better.

• James

• June 9, 2016 at 1:46 pm

Hi @darrenbachan

You can get the label by using the get_field_object() function. This page should give you more idea about it: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/get_field_object/.

I hope this helps 🙂

• darrenbachan

• June 9, 2016 at 5:48 pm

I’ve read this before. Using the field name doesn’t work, like if I have a dozen fields I need a dozen variables or calls using get_field_object?

get_field_object(field_1);
get_field_object(field_2);
get_field_object(field_3);
get_field_object(field_4);
get_field_object(field_5);

This isn’t clean to me. When you do a var dump you see [label] why can’t that be called?

• James

• June 10, 2016 at 11:03 am

Hi @darrenbachan

I’m afraid I don’t understand how you see the [label]. Could you please share the code you used to see the label?

If you want to get all of the custom fields in a post/page, you can always use the get_field_objects() instead.

Thanks 🙂

• WP Academic

• October 23, 2021 at 1:13 pm

I know this is an old post, but you can grab the field label from the ‘posts’ table.

  if (!function_exists('getAcfLabelByName')) {

    function getAcfLabelByName($fieldName = null) {

        if (empty($fieldName)) {
            return 'No field name specified';
        }

        // set a default in case there's an exception

        $fieldLabel = 'Not Found';

        try {

            /**
             * ACF stores the the Labels in the
             * wp_posts table, where the ACF label is the title
             * and the excerpt is the field name
             */

            global $wpdb;

            $tableName = "{$wpdb->prefix}posts";

            $labelReturned = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT post_title FROM $tableName 
            WHERE post_type = %s AND post_excerpt = %s", 'acf-field', $fieldName ));

            // grab the post_title from the result

            $fieldLabel = !empty($labelReturned) ? $labelReturned : 'Not Found';
            

        } catch (Exception $e) {
            
            $error = $e->getMessage();

            error_log("There was an exception finding the ACF field label by name with the message $error");

            
        }

        return $fieldLabel;

    }

  }

You can then use this like:

$fieldLabel = getAcfLabelByName('field_name_here');

For what it’s worth I created a simple plugin to add this function to your site:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/get-acf-field-label-from-name/