Parent page with children page content

• ForbiddenChunk

• December 21, 2016 at 6:44 am

Is it possible to get ACF fields from child page and have them appear on the parent page.

What I have been trying to do is have a parent page which then has some child pages in it’s structure which all show brief snippet written from that child page and then if I add more it shows them automatically etc.

Here is what I have so far;

<?php
$childArgs = array(
    'sort_order' => 'ASC',
    'sort_column' => 'menu_order',
    'child_of' => get_the_ID()
);
$childList = get_pages($childArgs);
foreach ($childList as $child) { ?>
    <div class="child-page">
        <h2 class="child-title"><?php echo $child->post_title; ?></h2>
        <?php echo apply_filters( 'the_content', $child->post_content); ?>
        <a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>">...more</a>
    </div>
<?php } ?>

I am struggling getting my head around how I can get the fields from child pages without listing a specific ID…

Can anyone help?

• James

• December 21, 2016 at 12:18 pm

Hi @forbiddenchunk

You can simply get the child ID from the $child variable like this:

$field_value = get_field('custom_field_name', $child->ID);
echo $field_value;

This page should give you more idea about it: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/get_field/.

I hope this helps 🙂