I’m looking to build a widget which will render out infomation relevant to the current post and the last 10 articles which share the same relationship, but I’m struggling in two areas:
My widget code doesn’t appear to be able to retrieve the post relationship, the same code in my single.php running in the post works fine. At best I can pull the relationship out in the post body and register it as a global – there has to be a better way?
I can’t find a way to easily fetch other posts which are also related to the same post.
I’ve purchased ACF pro as I had interpreted widget interaction as an ACF 5 requirement, but upon further inspection the widget functionality refers to targeting widgets in the back end.
Any pointers?
Hi @pixeldynamo
Within your widget code you must find a way to obtain the current $post ID. Then you can get ACF to return the correct data by using the second parameter of teh get_field function.
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/how-to-get-values-from-another-page/
Most likely you can find the $post with this:
global $post;
$post_id = $post->ID;
Good luck
