Wrong Data Being Displayed

• arald

• February 2, 2019 at 5:05 am

Hi!
I’m having an issue with a flexible content field not pulling the correct data. On the homepage for the site I’m working on, I have a hero group, which has fields for a hero image, text, and a button to open a popup. The field names for the hero button and link are hero_button_text and hero_button_link, respectively. Then, I have a separate homepage content flexible content field. The design of the site calls for buttons to be placed beneath different sections, so I have a button layout that allows a button to be placed underneath a section. The field names are button_text and button_link. For some reason, on the homepage, the data in a button a placed under a section reiterates the hero_button data, instead of the button data I put in the custom field (Learn More, with a link to another page).

This is the code in the front-page.php file. All other sections display the correct data.

<div class="front-page">
	<div id="primary" class="content-area">
		<main id="main" class="site-main">

		<?php // open the WordPress loop
			if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); 

				if( get_field('hero_image') ):
					get_template_part('template-parts/section', 'hero');
				endif; ?>

				<div class="content-margin">

				<?php // are there any rows within our flexible content?
				if( have_rows('homepage_content') ): 

					// loop through all the rows of flexible content
					while ( have_rows('homepage_content') ) : the_row();

					// FEATURED CONTENT
					if( get_row_layout() == 'featured_content' )
						get_template_part('template-parts/section', 'featured_content');

					// RESULTS
					if( get_row_layout() == 'results' )
						get_template_part('template-parts/section', 'results');

					// GENERIC CONTENT
					if( get_row_layout() == 'generic_content' )
						get_template_part('template-parts/section', 'generic_content');

					// BUTTON
					if( get_row_layout() == 'button' )
						get_template_part('template-parts/part', 'button');

					endwhile; // close the loop of flexible content
				endif; // close flexible content conditional ?>

			</div>
			<?php 
			endwhile; endif; // close the WordPress loop 
		?>

		</main><!-- #main -->
	</div><!-- #primary -->
</div><!-- .front-page -->

The logic pulls this template part, and the page seems to be displaying this – the button is in a section with a class of button-section, but the text and link relate back to the hero button code.

<section class="button-section">
	<?php $url = get_field('button_link') ?>
	<a class="button" href="<?php echo $url ?>">
		<?php the_field('button_text'); ?>
	</a>
</section>

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!!

• arald

• February 2, 2019 at 2:38 pm

Realized my stupid mistake…needed a get_sub_field instead of get_field!