Post Object Custom Field

• elmwoodplayhouse

• August 18, 2015 at 11:43 pm

Could someone please help me? I am trying to call into my page informationing from a repeating field’s sub field and keep gettingteh error:

Post Object Custom Field:
Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Post could not be converted to string in /home/elmwood1/public_html/wdpr/wp-content/plugins/advanced-custom-fields-pro/api/api-template.php on line 911

As far as I know I am using the code correctly as provided in your FAQ section.

• Jonathan

• August 19, 2015 at 2:13 am

Hi @elmwoodplayhouse

I can’t help you without more information. Could you please post the code you’re using and perhaps do a screenshot of what your repeater field with subfields looks like.

• elmwoodplayhouse

• August 19, 2015 at 2:44 am

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• elmwoodplayhouse

• August 20, 2015 at 12:00 am

Hi Jonathan, just wanted to me the file I sent thru with answers to your question me thru (I think it did but Im not 100% sure) thanks!

• Jonathan

• August 20, 2015 at 4:48 pm

Hi @elmwoodplayhouse

You could just post the code here as well within code tags tho 🙂

Try this:

<?php if( have_rows('cast') ): ?>

	<?php while( have_rows('cast') ): the_row(); ?>

		<?php $post_object = get_sub_field('actor'); ?>
	    <?php if( $post_object ): ?>
			<?php
	        // override $post
	        $post = $post_object;
	        setup_postdata( $post );
			?>
              
			<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

			<?php wp_reset_postdata(); // IMPORTANT - reset the $post object so the rest of the page works correctly ?>

        <?php endif; ?>
	<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php endif; ?>

• elmwoodplayhouse

• August 21, 2015 at 2:21 am

Great! That works! Thanks you made my otherwise crappy day and a little brighter (actually things are good so I shouldnt complain) It was driving me crazy. Wish I knew what I was doing wrong. But now that I have your code which is correct, I can examine it more closely for myself. Thanks again!

• Jonathan

• August 22, 2015 at 3:58 am

No problem, glad I could help you out and maybe brighten your day a little 😉

Your code wasn’t really that much wrong I think you were just confused over how the post data setup works.

you fetched the artist post object with get_sub_field but then attempted to echo out the very same post object inside the setup_postdata instead of using WP core functions such as the_title(); the_content() etc.