Options page repeater field on a taxonomy template

• pixsaul

• January 23, 2015 at 4:54 am

Hi guys,

I’m making an image slider that I want to appear on a specific category page.

The slider fields are currently stored on an option page as a repeater.

The fields work fine on the homepage template, but when I copy the code to the category.php template, it doesn’t work.

Anyone know why this might be?

Code:

<!-- Start homepage slider -->
<div class="home-banner flexslider-home">
		<ul class="slides">
		
				<?php if(get_field('video_slider', 'option')): ?>					
					<?php while(has_sub_field('video_slider', 'option')): ?>
					<?php $image = get_sub_field('image');?>
					
						<li class="home-lead-image">
							<a href="<?php the_sub_field('link'); ?>">
							<img class="img-responsive upsize" style="visibility: hidden;" src="<?php echo $image['url']; ?>" alt="<?php echo $image['alt']; ?>"/>
														
							<img class="img-responsive parallax upsize" src="<?php echo $image['url']; ?>" alt="<?php echo $image['alt']; ?>"/>
							
							<div class="container-fluid">
								<div class="col-sm-6">
									<h1><?php the_sub_field('text'); ?></h1>
								</div>
							</div>
							</a>
							
						</li>
				
					<?php endwhile; ?>					
				<?php endif; ?>		
				
		</ul>
</div>
<div class="container-fluid">
	<div class="banner-direction-nav">
		<a class="prev">◀</a>
		<a class="next">▶</a>
	</div>
</div>
<!-- End homepage slider -->

It gets into the IF statement fine, but not the WHILE.

Anyone had any experience with this?

Cheers

Saul

• ractoon

• January 23, 2015 at 4:05 pm

Interesting it’s working on the homepage, the syntax seems like it would need to be tweaked to:

<!-- Start homepage slider -->
<div class="home-banner flexslider-home">
		<ul class="slides">
		
				<?php if (have_rows('video_slider', 'option')): ?>					
					<?php while(have_rows('video_slider', 'option')): the_row(); ?>
					<?php $image = get_sub_field('image');?>
					
						<li class="home-lead-image">
							<a href="<?php the_sub_field('link'); ?>">
							<img class="img-responsive upsize" style="visibility: hidden;" src="<?php echo $image['url']; ?>" alt="<?php echo $image['alt']; ?>"/>
														
							<img class="img-responsive parallax upsize" src="<?php echo $image['url']; ?>" alt="<?php echo $image['alt']; ?>"/>
							
							<div class="container-fluid">
								<div class="col-sm-6">
									<h1><?php the_sub_field('text'); ?></h1>
								</div>
							</div>
							</a>
							
						</li>
				
					<?php endwhile; ?>					
				<?php endif; ?>		
				
		</ul>
</div>
<div class="container-fluid">
	<div class="banner-direction-nav">
		<a class="prev">◀</a>
		<a class="next">▶</a>
	</div>
</div>
<!-- End homepage slider -->

• pixsaul

• January 23, 2015 at 9:44 pm

Thanks for the reply, I updated the syntax, still works on homepage.php but not category.php

Weirdly when I dump the video_slider field on the category page I get this:

string(1) "2"

the “2” bit seems to be a count of the array, when there are three rows the dump updates to:

string(1) "3"

When I run the same dump code on homepage.php it returns the data correctly.

I seem to be able to get other standard text option fields on category.php, maybe it’s a combination of it being an option and a repeater field?

• pixsaul

• January 23, 2015 at 10:45 pm

After some searching I found this post: http://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/repeater-on-options-page-returns-count/

Which doesn’t directly apply to me as the code isn’t in functions.php, but it does imply that the repeater field “is not yet loaded and can’t run it’s custom load_value logic”.

I made the category page template in question (category-music.php) after installing ACF and creating the fields, do I have to register the new templates somehow?

• ractoon

• January 24, 2015 at 2:37 pm

Interesting, your new template shouldn’t need to be registered – if it’s loading it should be set.

Have you tried your code within the init hook like @elliot mentioned in that post?

add_action('init', function() {
?>
<?php if(get_field('video_slider', 'option')): ?>					
  <?php while(has_sub_field('video_slider', 'option')): ?>
    <?php $image = get_sub_field('image');?>
    <li class="home-lead-image">
      <a href="<?php the_sub_field('link'); ?>">
	<img class="img-responsive upsize" style="visibility: hidden;" src="<?php echo $image['url']; ?>" alt="<?php echo $image['alt']; ?>"/>
	<img class="img-responsive parallax upsize" src="<?php echo $image['url']; ?>" alt="<?php echo $image['alt']; ?>"/>
	<div class="container-fluid">
	  <div class="col-sm-6">
	    <h1><?php the_sub_field('text'); ?></h1>
	  </div>
	</div>
      </a>
    </li>
  <?php endwhile; ?>					
<?php endif; ?>		
<?php
});

• pixsaul

• January 26, 2015 at 9:31 pm

Still nothing, weirdly it doesn’t fire anything from within that init function. Maybe that only works in functions.php?

• pixsaul

• January 26, 2015 at 10:00 pm

After more Googling around, I found this:

http://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/repeater-field-broken-when-using-category-php-file/

I already had something similar in my functions.php, but it obviously wasn’t quite right. This is the correct code:

//Include CPT In Categories Pages
function namespace_add_custom_types( $query ) {
    if( is_category() || is_tag() && empty( $query->query_vars['suppress_filters'] ) ) {
        $post_types = get_post_types( '', 'names' ); 
        $query->set( 'post_type', $post_types);
        return $query;
    }
}
add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'namespace_add_custom_types');

Still, respect for the help ractoon!