Post object as ACF – shortcode problem

• eva.szabo

• July 7, 2022 at 12:53 pm

Hello,

I use two custom post types: eventtype and event. The eventtype has a wysiwyg field that may contain any kind of shortcodes. I added the eventtype to the event as a custom field (post object). If I check only the eventtype content, it’s all good, but when I processing events, and I print eventtype content, the shortcodes inside the eventtype content doesn’t show.

$fields = get_fields(get_the_ID()); // get event custom fields
if ($fields):
  $event_type = get_field('eventtype'); // get event type custom field 
  if ($event_type): 
    echo ($event_type->post_content);
  endif;
endif;

Can you help me with this?

• John Huebner

• July 7, 2022 at 2:34 pm

when you access the post content this way

$post->post_content

shortcodes are not run. You either need to use a loop as described in the post object field documentation with functions like the_content() or you must call

echo do_shortcode($post->post_content)

• eva.szabo

• July 7, 2022 at 3:17 pm

Solved, thank you very much!