Unable to retrieve data from checkboxes field added to a taxonomy

• keith

• February 17, 2014 at 9:43 am

Hi

Excellent plugin, I’ve only just discovered it and it was a breeze to add checkboxes to my custom taxonomy.

Unfortunately I’ve hit a stumbling block with retrieving the data. I’ve read through the documentation but still can’t manage to retrieve the data saved to the custom field.

So, I have a simple checkbox with 3 options added to a custom taxonomy. The field name is “master_directory_category” and the custom taxonomy is called “directory_tax”.

Can you please provide guidance as to how I can create the following workflow (from within a PHP template file):

For each of the checkbox options of master_directory_category, display a clickable list the terms belonging to “directory_tax” which have that first option of the checkbox selected.
Repeat for the remaining 2 options of the checkbox custom field.

{some terms within the custom taxonomy will have multiple checkboxes selected but it’s ok to list them again if they have that particular checkbox option selected}

My output should be similar to:

Option1
– sport
– fiction
– history

Option2
– crime
– sport

Option3
– history
– crime
– sport
– romance

Hope you can help me!

Thanks.

• Elliot

• February 17, 2014 at 10:28 am

Hi @keith

I am not 100% sure I understand what the issue is, but perhaps you are having difficultly loading the taxonomy term’s custom field value?

Please read this doc to learn how:
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/how-to/how-to-get-values-from-a-taxonomy-term/

Please feel free to post code if you are having difficultly getting it to work.

Thanks
E

• keith

• February 19, 2014 at 4:00 am

Hi Elliot,

Yes that’s exactly what I was looking to do and while I couldn’t figure it out before from reading the documentation, inspiration suddenly hit me from re-reading it and I got it working.

thanks
Keith