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1. hazardous_waster
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Wotcha all

   Basically I'm trying to add a link to a title and it needs to link to the first post in a certain post category ... but I'm using advanded custom fields so that title is a varialbe so in the code looks like this:

   <h2><?php echo get_field('news_title'); ?></h2>

   That displays fine, but I need to add the link to is, so what I tried to do is something like this

   <?php $postslist = get_posts('category=7&numberposts=1&order=DESC&orderby=post_date');
        foreach ($postslist as $post) :
        setup_postdata($post); ?>
      <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">Link title here</a></h2>
   <?php endforeach; ?>

   Which works fine getting the link, but if I try replacing 'Link title here' with my Advanced custom field variable in that link it doesn't pick it up, so I tried this ... which in my mind should work fine!...

   <?php $postslist = get_posts('category=7&numberposts=1&order=DESC&orderby=post_date');
        foreach ($postslist as $post) :
        setup_postdata($post); ?>
      <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php echo get_field('news_title'); ?></a></h2>
   <?php endforeach; ?>

   Should be so simple but I can't get my head around this one! Any idea why it might not be working?

   Cheers in advance peeps!

2. elliotcondon
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   your code looks fine.

   the get_field function should find the new global post object but it might be worth a try doing this:

   <h2><a>"><?php echo get_field('news_title', $post->ID); ?></a></h2>

3. hazardous_waster
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Thanks for this Elliot, I've tried this but no joy I'm afraid, damn!

   N

4. Harrison O.
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Change your loop to this:
   

   <?php
   global $post;
   $args = array( 'numberposts' => 1, 'category' => 1, 'order'=> 'DESC', 'orderby' => 'post_date' );
   $myposts = get_posts( $args );
   foreach( $myposts as $post ) :	setup_postdata($post); ?>
   	<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo get_field('news_title'); ?></a></h2>
   <?php endforeach; ?>

5. hazardous_waster
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Cheers for that Harrison but I'm still having no joy, I've set up a test page to get this working, it's driving me crazy! Here it is -

   http://www.uktravelboutique.com/?page_id=2358

   This is literally all that is on this page:

   <h2><?php echo get_field('news_title'); ?></h2>
   
   <?php
   global $post;
   $args = array( 'numberposts' => 1, 'category' => 1, 'order'=> 'DESC', 'orderby' => 'post_date' );
   $myposts = get_posts( $args );
   foreach( $myposts as $post ) :	setup_postdata($post); ?>
   	<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo get_field('news_title'); ?></a></h2>
       <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo get_field('news_title'); ?>test</a></h2>
   <?php endforeach; ?>

   As you can see the first title works just fine but as soon as I add the link around it the variable just doesn't want to show up! Anyone get any more ideas on this?

   N

6. Harrison O.
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   My Antivirus is blocking your site saying it contains malware in it.
   I just tested that loop and it works fine for me. If you have more than one loop in that page, then you need to use a WP_query to query the posts
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query
   http://digwp.com/2011/05/loops/#wp-query

7. anupalusoft
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #
   

   am having this same problem. :(
   @hazardous_waster: Have you find any solution for this?

8. anupalusoft
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #
   

   solved cheers. totally my fault in written.

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