Output Fields input through Template A to Template B

• Andrew-ThinkUP

• March 14, 2020 at 3:22 am

Hi John & Team,
I’m allowing a client to load in a Banner Ad into a certain place in their homepage layout using the following

  // Check if Banner is activated
    if (get_field('activate_banner_ad')):
      // if So, output banner markup & fields ?>
      <div class="bannerAd">
         <img src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/littleflower-logo.png" class="adLogo"/>
         <h2><?php the_field('banner_title');?></h2>
         <h4><?php the_field('banner_ad_date');?></h4>
         <a class="button orange" href="<?php the_field('banner_ad_button_link');?>" target="_blank"><?php the_field('banner_ad_button_text');?></a>
      </div><?php
    endif;?>

That works wonderfully! All good there. The client also wants this same content available on another page of the site, so I created that same code into an add_action() and hooked that into the page template she wanted, but I’m not getting any output from ACF? My action/hook seems to work if I output anything else (like echo ‘hello’) but ACF is not getting output. I had assumed I could access those same fields from wherever. What am I not understanding?

Here’s the code from my action hook

<?php
add_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'banner_ad', 1 );
function banner_ad() {
  // Check if Banner is activated
  echo 'hello';
  if (get_field('activate_banner_ad')):
    // if So, output banner markup & fields ?>
    <div class="bannerAd">
       <img src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/littleflower-logo.png" class="adLogo"/>
       <h2><?php the_field('banner_title');?></h2>
       <h4><?php the_field('banner_ad_date');?></h4>
       <a class="button orange" href="<?php the_field('banner_ad_button_link');?>" target="_blank"><?php the_field('banner_ad_button_text');?></a>
    </div><?php
  endif;
}
?>

• John Huebner

• March 15, 2020 at 12:47 am

You need to supply the post ID so ACF knows where to get the values from

You can get the ID using this

$post_id = get_option('page_on_front');

Then add this to your get_field() and the_field() calls

get_field('field-name', $post_id)

the_field('field-name, $post_id)

• Andrew-ThinkUP

• June 30, 2020 at 3:27 am

Thank you @hube2 That was just what I needed.