I may be missing something here because it is not working as simply as I thought.
In my Name field (name) I have a simple text “John”
I am trying in my text area field Greeting (greeting) to use that string in some editable text like:
“Hello [acf field="field_1"].”
But on the page I get the exact same thing “Hello [acf field="field_1"].”
Is this not how the ACF shortcodes are meant to work?
Please ignore I found the problem on another thread, it needs to be a WYSIWYG in order for them to work.
https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/displaying-a-shortcode-placed-in-a-custom-field/
You can also add a filter to the field to run sortcodes on the field. There is an example of doing this on this page https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-format_value/
