Hi all,
I feel like I’ve got the most basic requirement and it’s beaten me.
I’m using Divi and ACF.
We have a expiry date across several pages and instead of editing each block/page manually we’re looking to save time by using a shortcode and updating one thing instead of 20 pages.
I’ve set up a Field group, added a field, given it a title/shortcode.
I’ve tried displaying on a single post, a single page and all pages that have a default layout.
The idea is to have a ‘page’ with all the shortcodes at the bottom and enter the data there, that data is called on all the different pages on the site where the shortcode is used.
I just can’t get it to work. [acf field="expirydate"] displays nothing. Needless to say there’s no typo, that’s what’s in ACF.
At one point I had it working when in the divi builder but it never showed on a live page.
I’ve tried so many different things, clearing the various caches along the way.
Any ideas?
I worked it out. Thanks for the help everyone!
I still don’t know the ‘correct’ way to do this. Can someone point to a tutorial or video that shows how to achieve what I was looking for?
For anyone that stumbles across this in future…
The shortcode alone is not enough, you also need to specify where the information is stored by adding the post/page id number
[acf field="field_name" post_id="123"]
Set up a field group that displays only on one page, ‘shortcodes’ and make a note of the ‘shortcodes’ page id number. Add fields as needed and note their shortcodes.
You can then paste the shortcode above onto any page in a text module and it will pull the data and display it.
You can use this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/acf-views/ to easily display fields with a simple shortcode (like ‘[acf_views view-id=”x”]’), that can be pasted anywhere, including page editors. To display fields from another object, you should just pass an id of another object in this way ‘[acf_views view-id=”x” object-id=”ANOTHER_POST_ID”]’
