Search custom field value to display taxonomy name

• br0wnie1991

• January 24, 2017 at 1:33 am

Hi, not sure where to post this… I’m looking for some help with querying a taxonomy name based on a custom field value… Some info below:

$searchstring = '77-999-77';

My data roughly looks like this:

(taxonomy) product_cat - (name) Category 1 - (custom field) gc_number - (value I need to search) 77-999-77
    (taxonomy) product_cat - (name) Category 2 - (custom field) gc_number - (value I need to search) 73-333-73
    (taxonomy) product_cat - (name) Category 3 - (custom field) gc_number - (value I need to search) 76-666-76

I then need to display the product_cat name to the user.

So for example, the $searchstring above would return the result Category 1.

Hopefully this makes some sense and any help would be greatly appreciated!

• John Huebner

• January 30, 2017 at 4:53 am

It depends on what version of ACF you’re using. 4 (from the WP repo) or 5 (Pro version)

In both cases you’re going to use get_terms() https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_terms/

In the most recent ACF 5 you can use use a meta query.

With ACF 4 you will need to get all the terms and loop through them to find the one with the right value, this is the same for any version of ACF < 5.5.0