User Field In A Repeater

• Windurin

• February 15, 2020 at 6:41 am

Hi,

I’m trying to get a User from a User field to show on the front end. It’s in a Repeater. The setup is a Repeater field called ‘staff_notes’ and a User sub_field called ‘staff_member’

What I want is to output the display name with a link to the user’s profile, but even just getting the name would be a start. I’ve looked at the documentation and this is the code I tried:

<?php

if( have_rows('staff_notes') ): ?>

<?php while ( have_rows('staff_notes') ) : the_row(); ?>

<?php $user = get_sub_field('staff_member');

if( $user ): ?>

<h3><?php echo $user['display_name']; ?></h3>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php endif; ?>

The User sub_field is using the Array return type with single select, so I saw this code here:

https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/user/

$user = get_field("user_field");
if( $user ): ?>
<div class="author-box">
    author-avatar
    <h3><?php echo $user['display_name']; ?></h3>
    <?php if( $user['user_description'] ): ?>
        <p><?php echo $user['user_description']; ?></p>
    <?php endif; ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

But even changing get_field to get_sub_field (since it’s in a Repeater) didn’t seem to work.

That’s why I added the code for while (have_rows), but I’m still not getting results. I also tried changing the return type (object and ID) and tried changing the User field to a multiselect and using the code for that on the above URL.

How would I get the User’s display name with a link to their profile with the setup I have? As a reminder, the User field is a sub_field in a Repeater.

Thanks, Chris.

—- Versions —-
ACF v5.8.7 (PRO)
WP v5.3.2

• Windurin

• February 15, 2020 at 9:54 am

I did actually manage to get this working, for displaying the display_name at least. The final code I used was:

<span class="staff-note-label">Note Added By:</span>
<?php
$user = get_sub_field("staff_member");

if( $user ): ?>

<span class="staff-note-name"><a href="<?php echo $user['user_url']; ?>"><?php echo $user['display_name']; ?></a></span>

<?php endif; ?>

I’m unable to get the url to the User’s profile though. The url is showing as the current post url. I’m sure that user_url is the right meta and I noticed there’s code for the user_url in the multiple selected users example at:

https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/user/

But I tried it with a multi select user field as well and used the second example code and the link is still for the current post and not the user profile url. How can I get the link for the user’s profile in this context?

Thanks.

• John Huebner

• February 16, 2020 at 3:21 am

It does not appear that ACF is returning the url, the value is there but it’s empty

Try

echo get_author_posts_url($user['ID']);

• Windurin

• February 16, 2020 at 3:26 am

Thank you so much John, that was it. Mystery solved!