Taxonomy Term

• jwssnr

• July 19, 2016 at 5:49 pm

How can I get the category-name or slug out of a custom taxonomy field?
When I use the following code, I get the cat ID. But if i switch in the backend the return value from “term ID” to “term object”, my template crashes.
Can anybody help? I’m not that fit in php an I already read the taxonomy page in the documentation.

`<?php the_field(‘field_name’, $term); ?>’

• John Huebner

• July 19, 2016 at 9:39 pm

If you’re returning an term object then you need to use get_field() and use it rather than the_field() which echos the returned field.

<?php 
  $term = get_field('taxonomy_field');
  echo $term->name;
?>

• jwssnr

• July 19, 2016 at 10:10 pm

Thanks John.
Sorry, I don’t get it. I replaced ‘taxonomy_field’ with my custom field name ‘instrument’. But that’s not correct, right?
Attached is a screenshot of this custom field.

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• John Huebner

• July 19, 2016 at 10:57 pm

You are returning the term ID, it’s not easy to get the term name from the term ID without a bit of work. If you want to display the term name you should set the field to return the term Object.

• jwssnr

• July 20, 2016 at 12:09 am

Hooray! So it was the combination of setting it to “term object” and your snippet above. (… and I had a little crumb of crab in one line.)
You saved my day. Thank you very much.