ACF Field Not Displaying in the Front End

Question

I created a custom ACF Field called 'url' under the user registration data section which will carry the facebook homepage of the user . However when I try to use it in index.php template it is not working. It is showing no href link. I don't see anything wrong with the code.

     $author_id = get_the_author_meta('ID');
     $test=get_field('url', 'user_'.$author_id);
      ?>
    <div class="image"><a href="<?php echo $test; ?>" target="_blank"><?php echo $gravatar?></a>
    </div>

Ivnhal · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-11 18:12:35Z

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You need to specify the id of user:

For example:

get_field('url', 'user_1');

This code returns the url field of user with id = 1

answered Sep 11, 2018 at 18:12

Ivnhal

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Xhynk Over a year ago

+1 - @Dev B - check out the Get a value from different objects portion of the get_field() docs for more information

Dev B Over a year ago

So I Used $author_id = get_the_author_meta('ID'); <?php $test=get_field('url', $author_id); ?> <div class="image"><a href="<?php echo $test; ?>" target="_blank"><?php echo $gravatar?></a></div> Still there is no URL available in the href.

Ivnhal Over a year ago

@Dev B do not use $author_id but 'user_' . $author_id;

Dev B Over a year ago

The issue is that I am the admin user and The custom field is available only to the authors. What you are saying is that I should use like this:- $my_post = get_post( $id ); $userid= $my_post->post_author; $test=get_field('amazon', $userid);

Ivnhal Over a year ago

@Dev B. You just need to get the user id and add it to the string 'user_'. And pass the result to get_field second parameter.

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