How Do I Show CATEGORY Custom Fields?

How do I show a custom field for a Category??? (Please don’t say “read the docs,” I have been reading them for three hours now!!!)

I want to show a different block of text on each Category page.

I created a text area custom field for my Categories. The field name is:

category_footer

Now how do I actually display that “category_footer” custom field on the Category pages?

I have tried using short codes:

[acf field="category_footer"]

And that did not work. So I tried using PHP:

<p><?php the_field('category_footer'); ?></p>

But that did not work either.

The data exists in the BACKEND ok. By that, I mean that if i go to a category page and enter text into the “category_footer” custom footer, then that data will stay there.

But I have no idea how to access that data on the front end.

What code should I use and WHERE does it need to go???

By the way; I have the location rules for my “category_footer” custom field set as the following:

Show this field group if Taxonomy Term is equal to Categories

I don’t use tags / taxonimies of any kind (at least as far as I know).

Also, I am using genesis framework and have been trying to use the shortcodes and php in the genesis simple hooks areas.

Thanks in advance.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/