traveler

@zodiac1978 Any chance you could post your code again, the one @dmatamales said worked for him? Your original uploads are not visible anymore.

Thanks.

If you want to have a link for “Story” in the left-hand vertical navigation, then yes, you’ll need to create a post type with CPT UI. You can use that field group on existing post types already without using CPT UI.

Just to add, I had to change another line in the same file referenced above by @mucha, around line 926 I had another instance of the ..( &$scripts ). So change:
function wp_default_styles( &$styles ) {}
becomes:
function wp_default_styles( $styles ) {}

This and the above fixed both errors I had after moving to PHP 7.2 on WPengine.

Sounds like your CSS is off and needs to be adjusted.By default div tags and most block elements that I know of are 100% width of their parent, so you need to use your browser inspector to find the HTML elements surrounding this widget area and then use CSS to take off any left/right padding or margins, and make sure all parent elements have 100% width.

Hey Divvy,
I’m not familiar with the above snippet you included, but if you’re already inside the
<?php ?> tags then you just would right it in the template code. I typically will save the custom field into a php variable on that specific template file that I’m working on changing in a manner like:
$custom-field-var = get_field('custom_field_name');

Then when I need the exact input from that field in my page template I’ll echo that variable within php tags:
<img src="<?php echo $custom-field-var ?>" />
I would use the above if I needed that src url from the backend into the front end. I would do this to create a <a href> link instead of having some other site admin manually wrap the <a href> around an element. From my experience, the less work a site admin has to do with the WYSIWIG editor’s buttons/inline styles the better.

So having said all that, since you want to put a custom field into an html string, I would imagine within the ” marks that delineate the string you’ll need to use an opening and closing php tag since within the string and concatenate it with the string by opening and closing the string quote marks, inserting the variable/custom field, and then finishing the string by concatenating it with the rest of whatever you need in that file above. Look up Php string concatenation and you’ll see how to do it.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by traveler.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by traveler.

Btw, the plugin you mentioned, Web Directory 2.0, will work for what I’ve been looking for, so thanks @ultramel1987

• This reply was modified 9 years ago by traveler.

You have to call that custom field into your theme/template file.

You can pull any custom field into your theme/template by doing this:
<?php the_field(''); ?>

You’ll need to wrap that in whatever HTML tag you want.

You can find more here: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/hiding-empty-fields/