How to show up coustom field of category in author.php

• blurfun

• August 26, 2021 at 7:46 am

I added a coustom field for category.

it works fine in archive.php , here is code:

<?php echo get_field('students_no_class', get_queried_object() );?>

but it doesn’t work in author.php , nothing showup.

in author page I need disaply coustom field value after

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();?>

I guess get_field() need category id? not sure, also some of post coud belog to two categories.

Thanks

• blurfun

• August 28, 2021 at 4:04 am

Just did more test.

When I delete author.php
the author page will jump to archive page and coustom field value did not show up.
(in archive.php I can see coustom field value)

here is author page url:
http://domianname.com/?author=123

here is archive page url:
http://domianname.com/?cat=456

• John Huebner

• August 29, 2021 at 9:10 pm

Yes, if you want to get fields from a category and not the post then you must supply the category ID in the form of "term_{$term_id}" or you can supply the term object as in your first code example.

You can get the terms of the post using get_the_terms()

• blurfun

• August 30, 2021 at 2:22 am

Thanks for reply.
but it looks doesn’t work. even i hard code the post id.

<?php echo get_field('students_no_class', get_queried_object() , 456 ) ?>