Retrieve Custom Field in Sidebar & Footer

• sachajackson

• April 1, 2015 at 12:51 am

Hi all….

I’m looking to retrieve custom fields from a post from the sidebar and from the footer. EG. I update my post with data in the custom fields and then display that data in the sidebar. Is this possible?

Also in the case where I have my homepage set to latest posts, how can add customs fields to it? Is it a case of creating a dummy page and taking the custom fields from that dummy page?

Thanks….

• James

• April 6, 2016 at 9:22 pm

Hi

In order to display custom field values in the sidebar and the footer.

You will need to provide a second parameter of the post id to the the_field/get_field function.

For example

$post_id = null; // current post
$post_id = 1; // post 1
$post_id = "option"; // options page
$post_id = "options"; // same as above
$post_id = "category_2"; // target a specific category
$post_id = "event_3"; // target a specific taxonomy (this tax is called "event")
$post_id = "user_1"; // target a specific user (user id = 1)

the_field( "text_field", $post_id );

https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/the_field/

• psina

• February 26, 2019 at 6:33 am

look:

not properly
the_field( "text_field", $post_id );

right

$mypost_id = get_queried_object()->ID;   
the_field( "text_field", $mypost_id );