I’m still a newbie in ACF,
I created a basic field as shown in the following screenshot:
I can see the field without any problem in User’s profile page but I failed to show the content of this field in the usual pages using this shortcode:
[acf field="sms2"]
How can I fix this issue?
Can you explain the steps that you are following?
1) You are creating the page
2) Editing the page using the “Text” editor (not the visual)
3) Copying / Pasting the shortcode
and its not working? Why is not working? What is exactly displaying?
@hpctech the answer is simple: In your case the ACF is empty, because there is no place so far where you are filling the information that this field should be displaying. The ACF is a “container”, but from where is this container grabbing the information that should be displayed?
Let’s say you use a post to do this. If I am not wrong in your current settings, if you go to Posts > Add new, you will see the new sms2 field you created (below the content editor). Fill that text area with something, a number, whatever, and save it, then in the page where you are using the shortcode write [acf field="sms2"] or [acf field="sms2" post_id="524"] and replace 524 for the post-ID from where you want to grab this info.
May you please take a look to my screencast?
https://vid.me/Kwsq
I may didn’t explain the problem correctly
Ok, I might be wrong, but I don’t think the shortcode will let you retrieve values from a user. A shortcode only let you indicate field name and post_id.
But this might point you out in the right direction:
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/how-to-get-values-from-a-user/
The documentation says:
All the API functions can be used with a user, however, a second parameter is required to target the user ID. This is similar to passing through a post_id to target a specific post object.
The $post_id needed is a string containing “user” + the user ID in this format: “user_$UserID”
You will need to specifiy the user_ID for that. But as I said before, I dont think that’s available in a shortcode.
it depends if you have a post for every user or not.
if yes, than it may work with this shortcode [acf field="sms2" post_id="user_1"] of course only for user 1
if you wish to have 1 post and show value depends on user, i think, you need a custom template for that post
Unfortunaltely it seems that ACF will not fit my needs because I’m looking for completely dynamic solution 🙁
BTW, I found cimy user extra fields which does exactly what I need but unfortunately it doesn’t support shortcodes (I’ve to write them manually)
you cant have a dynamic solution with ACF shortcodes.
but as i write before if you create a custom template for that page.
and use there something like that
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
$userid = get_current_user_id();
get_userdata( $userid );
get_field('sms2', 'user_'. $userid );
}?>
of course you need to add the post loop arround, and maybe add a user-role filter too. but i hope that info help you to do it on your own
