Positioning Problem using Repeater Field with Shortcode

• grau

• May 10, 2019 at 9:26 pm

Hi there, I’m using the repeater field with a shortcode function: (https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/repeater/)

function myrepeater() {
global $post;
$my_id = get_the_ID($post);
if( have_rows('repeater_field_name', $my_id) ):
    while ( have_rows('repeater_field_name', $my_id) ) : the_row();
        the_sub_field('sub_field_name', $my_id);
    endwhile;
else :
endif;
}

add_shortcode('repeatme', 'myrepeater');

I created a page (classic editor) with text, headings and my shortcode:

This is classic text typed into the classic text editor.

[repeatme]

BUT the output of repeatme isn’t rendered at that specific position but before my entered text. Any idea how to solve this issue?

• John Huebner

• May 11, 2019 at 2:12 am

Shortcodes need to return the content to display, the reason it appears before the content is that you’re echoing out content using the_sub_field before the content is displayed.

function myrepeater() {
ob_start()
global $post;
$my_id = get_the_ID($post);
if( have_rows('repeater_field_name', $my_id) ):
    while ( have_rows('repeater_field_name', $my_id) ) : the_row();
        the_sub_field('sub_field_name', $my_id);
    endwhile;
else :
endif;
return ob_get_clean();
}

add_shortcode('repeatme', 'myrepeater');

• grau

• May 11, 2019 at 2:49 am

Awesome – thank you, a lot of headache just vanished.