• Lyon

• in reply to: In category, select other categories and return their name, an image and link?
• March 8, 2019 at 4:29 am

I’ve actually stunned myself and somehow figured this out. See my messy code below.

Each category has an image assigned in ACF (prod_image). I created a group “Taxonomy is equal to Category”, field type “Taxonomy” with radio buttons outputting a term ID.

<?php
$the_cat = get_the_category();
$the_cat = get_the_category( $id );
$category_name = $the_cat[0]->cat_name;
$category_link = get_category_link( $the_cat[0]->cat_ID );
?>

<!--Related Games-->
<?php if( get_field('show_related_games', 'term_'. $cat_id) ): ?>
<div>

    <!--Section Title-->
    <h3>
        <?php the_field( 'related_games_title', 'term_'. $cat_id ); ?>
    </h3>

    <!--Repeat field-->
    <?php if( have_rows('related_game', 'term_'. $cat_id) ): while ( have_rows('related_game', 'term_'. $cat_id) ) : the_row(); ?>
    <!--Product-->
    <div>
        <?php $term_id = get_sub_field('related_link');
                                    if( $term_id):
                                        $term_name = get_cat_name( $term_id ) ;
                                        $term_url = get_category_link( $term_id );
                                        $prod_image = get_field( 'prod_image', 'term_'. $term_id);?>
        <a href="<?php echo $term_url; ?>" class="relatedprod" target="_blank">

            <!--Packshot-->
            <?php if ( $prod_image ) { ?>
                <img src="<?php echo $prod_image['url']; ?>" alt="<?php echo $prod_image['alt']; ?>" />
            <?php } ?>

            <!--Product Info-->
            <div class="prodinfo">
                <div class="gamename">
                    <?php echo $term_name; ?>
                </div>
                <div class="smallgreencta">
                    <?php the_sub_field('cta_text'); ?>
                </div>
            </div>
        </a>
        <?php endif; ?>
    </div>
    <?php endwhile; else :
    // no rows found
    endif; ?>

</div>
<?php endif;?>

• Lyon

• in reply to: How to show category information on single post
• February 27, 2019 at 3:46 am

This solved my issue, many thanks!

• Lyon

• in reply to: How to show category information on single post
• February 15, 2019 at 4:03 am

I completely forgot to give an example of what I’m trying to achieve. So if the article is about a film for example, let’s say Casablanca, I want the sidebar to have generic information that I filled out in the category creation like an image of a DVD cover for Casablanca and I want that to be true of all articles I write about Casablanca. This code should grab that image right?

<?php $prodimage = get_field( 'prodimage' ); ?>
<?php if ( $prodimage ) { ?>
	<img src="<?php echo $prodimage['url']; ?>" alt="<?php echo $prodimage['alt']; ?>" />
<?php } ?>

I don’t know how to only pull the prodimage for the category of the post like the following code that pulls in the worpdress category description for the post:

<?php $catID = get_the_category(); echo category_description( $catID[0] ); ?>