Using ACF to show an image assigned to a taxonomy

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• May 27, 2019 at 9:47 am

Hi there,

Let me preface this with the fact that I’m a novice with very little php understanding, and I very much appreciate any insight and help you can give.

I have a custom taxonomy type that also has images assigned to each single taxonomy (using another plugin). On the post types that use this taxonomy, I can call the set image with:

          $terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID , 'resource_themes' );
                              foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
                                if (function_exists('get_wp_term_image'))
                                {
                                $meta_image = get_wp_term_image($term->term_id);
                                $term_link = get_term_link($term);
                              echo '<a href="'.$term_link.'"><div class="theme-icon-wrapper"><img src="'.$meta_image.'" class="theme-image"></div></a>';
                              }
                            }
                          ?>

And this is good! However, I have another page outside of this that I want to show a selected taxonomy image from. In ACF I have a taxonomy field built and pointed to ‘resource_themes’; (and within ACF it is a sub field labelled ‘theme_designation’). Now, when I try to modify my code to call the image, it does not work. Sometimes if I mess around can get it to output the taxonomy ID (Eg: 32), but that’s about it. The code I am using is as follows:

        <?php 
      $terms = the_sub_field('theme_designation');
                            foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
                              if (function_exists('get_wp_term_image'))
                              {
                              $meta_image = get_wp_term_image($term->term_id);
                              $term_link = get_term_link($term);
                            echo '<a href="'.$term_link.'"><div class="theme-icon-wrapper"><img src="'.$meta_image.'" class="theme-image"></div></a>';
                            }
                          }
                      ?>

Can anybody help? I know it’s very likely I am doing this quite wrong. Thanks so much, again – your time is very much appreciated.