Title: Need help with ACF
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Need help with ACF

 *  Resolved [aurorasentinel1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aurorasentinel1/)
 * (@aurorasentinel1)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-acf/)
 * I’m having trouble understanding how to display content from Advanced Custom 
   Fields. Here’s my example. I have a repeater field called Employees. The repeater
   fields under Employees are Name and Phone Number. Are name and phone number the
   sub-fields? If so is this correct:
    [repeater field=”employees”] [sub field=”
   name”] [sub field=”phone_number”] [sub field=”email_address”] [/repeater]
 * I’ve entered some data but it is just displaying a portion of the actual shortcode.
   What else do I need to do to display a list of employees that looks like this:
   
   name phone number name phone number name phone number
 * Bit of a noob here but I have successfully used your plugin to display content
   in loops. Thanks for your help.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-shortcode/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-shortcode/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Eliot Akira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miyarakira/)
 * (@miyarakira)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-acf/#post-4845642)
 * Hello,
 * I looked into this and found that I made a mistake in the documentation. The 
   shortcode is [repeat]. I’ll update the plugin this weekend, so that [repeater]
   will work also.
 * Another thing I found is that there’s no simple way to display repeater fields
   from post other than itself. It’s possible inside a loop, but, for example, if
   I wanted to show repeater fields from one post or page, there’s no easy method.
   So, I’ll think about a solution to this also.
 * Thanks for pointing out the issue. Please let me know if [repeat] solves it.
 *  Thread Starter [aurorasentinel1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aurorasentinel1/)
 * (@aurorasentinel1)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-acf/#post-4845681)
 * That did it Eliot. Thanks so much.
 *  Plugin Author [Eliot Akira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miyarakira/)
 * (@miyarakira)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-acf/#post-4845689)
 * I’ve updated the plugin to add the correct shortcode name [repeater].
 * Also, I addressed the point about showing repeater fields from other posts. You
   can use the _loop_ shortcode like this:
 *     ```
       [loop name="post-slug"]
           [repeater field="employees"]
               [sub field="name"]
               [sub field="phone_number"]
               [sub field="email_address"]
           [/repeater]
       [/loop]
       ```
   

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