Hi all
I’m creating my first WordPress site and my inexperience is getting in the way.
I’m creating a news site about products, there may be several different articles about the same product and there will be many different products.
Each product will be set up as a category. On the article post page I would like a sidebar with general information about the product. This information is coming from custom fields in the category.
The location rule is set up as Taxonomy is equal to Category. Then I add an image on the category page, but am stumped as to how I add this to the template. The code needs to know the category of the post and then get the information from the appropriate category.
Any help is much appreciated, I hope I have explained myself well enough, apologies if not. PHP is totally new to me.
I completely forgot to give an example of what I’m trying to achieve. So if the article is about a film for example, let’s say Casablanca, I want the sidebar to have generic information that I filled out in the category creation like an image of a DVD cover for Casablanca and I want that to be true of all articles I write about Casablanca. This code should grab that image right?
<?php $prodimage = get_field( 'prodimage' ); ?>
<?php if ( $prodimage ) { ?>
<img src="<?php echo $prodimage['url']; ?>" alt="<?php echo $prodimage['alt']; ?>" />
<?php } ?>
I don’t know how to only pull the prodimage for the category of the post like the following code that pulls in the worpdress category description for the post:
<?php $catID = get_the_category(); echo category_description( $catID[0] ); ?>
You need to specify the id value that ACF needs to get the field https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/adding-fields-taxonomy-term/
<?php
$categories= get_the_category();
if (!empty($categories)) {
$term_id = $categories[0]->term_id;
$image = get_field('category-image-field', 'term_'.$term_id);
// what you do from here depends on what the field is returning
}
?>
This solved my issue, many thanks!
