I have a template file with the following code.
<?php {
$recentposts=get_posts('showposts=3&category=<?php the_field(artist_news); ?>');
if ($recentposts) {
foreach($recentposts as $post) {
setup_postdata($post);
?>
The custom field named ‘artist_news” should return an id in a numerical form (for example ’22’). This is not working though. Any ideas why I can’t place the php field call in my code like this? The end result should be like this…
<?php {
$recentposts=get_posts('showposts=3&category=22');
if ($recentposts) {
foreach($recentposts as $post) {
setup_postdata($post);
?>
How would I get my custom field value to render in my code?
Try this:
<?php
$cat = get_the_field('artist_news');
$recentposts=get_posts('showposts=3&category=$cat');
?>
Not exactly sure how WordPress functions handle variables inside of strings like that so you might need to do this:
<?php
$cat = get_the_field('artist_news');
$recentposts=get_posts('showposts=3&category=' . $cat);
?>
So does this repalce ALL of my above code or do I integrate it somehow with mine?
When I replace it with your code I get an error…
fatal error: Call to undefined function get_the_field()
Sorry about that. I’m drunk. It’s get_field, not get_the_field.
<?php
$cat = get_field('artist_news');
$recentposts=get_posts('showposts=3&category=$cat');
if ($recentposts) {
... rest of your code
?>
We have a winner! thanks very much for the help. Final working code here for those in the future…
<?php
$cat = get_field(‘artist_news’);
$recentposts=get_posts(‘showposts=3&category=’ . $cat);
if ($recentposts) {
foreach($recentposts as $post) {
setup_postdata($post);
?>
