I have a text field that is called ‘organizations’ i need it to act like a category page where it lists anything that has organization tied to it in its taxonomy.
i also want to make this text field searchable as well.
How can i achieve this?
The only way to really do what you want is to use a custom taxonomy. WP does not have the ability to create archive pages based on a custom field. See my answer to this recent question for more information. http://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/linking-custom-fields-tag-or-archive-layout/
Also, check out these two pages I found on the subject
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/2545/show-links-to-archive-pages-based-on-custom-field-values
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-can-i-create-an-archive-by-custom-field
and do a search for wordpress archive page based on custom field
What you’re looking to do would be the same with or without ACF, it’s just something that WP doesn’t do easily.
you know what i did end up doing was registering another ‘category’ and have this act like the organization field – rather than using a custom text field.
Thanks! your input made me rethink what i was doing and what i was trying to achieve. no in-depth custom coding needs to be done.
