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Tomasz Muter
Tomasz Muter

Reputation: 181

ACF repeater in taxonomy (category) doesn't work

In a taxonomy category I have:

Repeater field named questions. Inside a repeater I have a field named answer.

I am trying to show all answers in category.php file like this:

$term = get_queried_object();

if ( have_rows( 'questions',   $term ) ) {
    while( have_rows( 'questions',   $term ) ) {
        the_row();
        the_sub_field( 'answer' );
    }
}

It doesn't work. Can you please tell me what is wrong here? I have tried for hours to make it work.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3978

Answers (4)

Maulik patel
Maulik patel

Reputation: 2432

    <?php 
$queried_object = get_queried_object(); 
    if( have_rows('product_category_faq_section_data',$queried_object) ){ ?>
                        <div class="panel-group" id="accordion">
                                <?php 
                                $faq_count = 1 ;
                                ?>
                                <?php while( have_rows('product_category_faq_section_data',$queried_object) ){ the_row(); ?>
                                <?php 
                                $product_category_faq_title = get_sub_field('product_category_faq_title');
                                $product_category_faq_description = get_sub_field('product_category_faq_description');
                                if($faq_count == "1")
                                {
                                ?>    
                                    <div class="panel panel-default">
                                            <?php if($faq_count){?>
                                            <div class="panel-heading">
                                                <h4 class="panel-title">
                                                      <a data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion" href="#collapse<?php echo $faq_count;?>">
                                                        <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-menu-right text-success"></span> <?php echo $product_category_faq_title;?>            
                                                      </a>
                                                </h4>
                                            </div>
                                            <?php }?>
                                            <?php if($product_category_faq_description){?>
                                            <div id="collapse<?php echo $faq_count;?>" class="panel-collapse collapse in">
                                                    <div class="panel-body"><?php echo $product_category_faq_description;?></div>
                                            </div>
                                            <?php }?>
                                    </div>
                                <?php }else{?>
                                    <div class="panel panel-default">
                                        <?php if($faq_count){?>
                                        <div class="panel-heading">
                                            <h4 class="panel-title">
                                                  <a data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion" href="#collapse<?php echo $faq_count;?>">
                                                    <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-menu-right text-info"></span> <?php echo $product_category_faq_title;?>             
                                                  </a>
                                            </h4>
                                        </div>
                                        <?php }?>
                                        <?php if($product_category_faq_description){?>
                                        <div id="collapse<?php echo $faq_count;?>" class="panel-collapse collapse">
                                                <div class="panel-body"><?php echo $product_category_faq_description;?></div>
                                        </div>
                                        <?php }?>
                                </div>
                                <?php } ?>    
                                <?php $faq_count = $faq_count +1 ; ?>    
                                <?php } ?>
                                
                        </div> <!-- end container -->
                        <?php } ?>

Upvotes: 0

sJirel
sJirel

Reputation: 81

If anyone's still looking for a solution, heres how I did it.

            <?php 
                $term = get_queried_object();
                $taxonomy = $term->taxonomy;
                $term_id = $term->term_id;  
                if( have_rows('highlight_boxes', $taxonomy . '_' . $term_id) ):
                while(have_rows('highlight_boxes', $taxonomy . '_' . $term_id)): 
                the_row(); 
            ?> 

                <div class="column">
                    <h2 class="heading-title"><?php the_sub_field('highlight_title', $taxonomy . '_' . $term_id) ?></h2>
                    <div class="description">
                        <p><?php the_sub_field('highlight_desc', $taxonomy . '_' . $term_id) ?></p>
                    </div>
                </div>
            
            <?php endwhile; endif; ?>

Upvotes: 8

Tomasz Muter
Tomasz Muter

Reputation: 181

I finally figured it out. I checked in phpmyadmin where the data is stored. It turned out that the data is saved in wp_termmeta and not as I thought in wp_postmeta. This is why most of the solutions didn't work.

Working workaround code for repeater added to taxonomy (a category in my example) using get_term_meta instead of ACF code (loops and functions).

<?php
  // name of repeater field
  $repeater = 'questions'; 

  // get taxonomy id
  $taxonomy_id = get_queried_object_id(); 

  // get repeater data from term meta
  $post_meta = get_term_meta($taxonomy_id, $repeater, true);

  // count items in repeater
  $count = intval(get_term_meta($taxonomy_id, $repeater, true));

  // loop + apply filter the_content to preserve html formatting
  for ($i=0; $i<$count; $i++) {
      echo apply_filters('the_content', get_term_meta($taxonomy_id, $repeater.'_'.$i.'_'.'title', true));
      echo apply_filters('the_content', get_term_meta($taxonomy_id, $repeater.'_'.$i.'_'.'answer', true));
    }
  ?>

The solution from documentation still doesn't work for repeaters in taxonomy. It does work for non-repeaters (ex. image, text added to taxonomy). https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/adding-fields-taxonomy-term/

Upvotes: 5

JBoss
JBoss

Reputation: 776

Have you tried looping through your field as an array instead? Often that's easier, especially if you are getting fields that aren't part of the global $post. Instead your setup would look like:

$questions = get_field( 'questions', $term );
foreach( $questions as $question ){
    echo $question[ 'answer' ];
}

I find that much easier. I would guess your issue above has to do with the_row() not getting the global loop properly because you're accessing the fields of $term but I'm not sure. In any case - the code above should work.

Upvotes: 1

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