True / False Field Always Returns False

• jamiemorganward

• January 11, 2015 at 10:42 am

I’m working on a taxonomy archive page called ‘product-type’. This is essentially returning a list of products within a particular category.

I have a true/false field in ACF and when I try get_field('show_medsafe_id'), it always returns false.

I’ve read that on an archive page I need to specify the post_id because ACF doesn’t know what post to look for. My code is now:

$post_id = false;
$post_id = get_the_ID();
$custom_field = get_field('show_medsafe_id', $post_id );

if( $custom_field ) {
	echo 'NZ Medsafe ID: ' . get_field('medsafe_id');
}

I’ve also tried this, as per the ACF documentation

$queried_object = get_queried_object();
$taxonomy = $queried_object->taxonomy;
$term_id = $queried_object->term_id;

$custom_field = get_field('show_medsafe_id', $taxonomy . '_' . $term_id);

if( $custom_field ) {
	echo 'NZ Medsafe ID: ' . get_field('medsafe_id');
}

Each time $custom_field’s value is bool(false).

Can someone point me in the right direction? Let me know if I need to provide more information.

• darkspiremedia

• January 13, 2015 at 6:39 am

jamiemorganward,

I’m having the same issue.

get_field('is_cabin','options');

returns false every time regardless of checked or not.

It seems to have started at the last update.

• DefJam

• November 1, 2015 at 10:39 pm

Having the same issue,

<?php 
 tvar1 = get_field('tree_votes_display');
  echo '<pre>';
   var_dump( $tvar1 );
  echo '</pre>';
?>

always returns
bool(false)

no matter if checkbox is checked or not.

• John Huebner

• November 2, 2015 at 6:54 am

Using the last example from the OP, it is almost there. The correct post_id value needs to be given for all get_field() calls when dealing with anything that is not a “post”.

$queried_object = get_queried_object();
$taxonomy = $queried_object->taxonomy;
$term_id = $queried_object->term_id;
$post_id = $taxonomy.'_'.$term_id

$custom_field = get_field('show_medsafe_id', $post_id);

if ($custom_field) {
  echo 'NZ Medsafe ID: '.get_field('medsafe_id', $post_id);
}