ACF: Display Fields in a template based on Cpt ui - php

Question

I have created a custom post type based on CPT Ui I am tryin to display the items of that in a template ideally what I want to be able to do is
www.siteurl.com/profile/profilename
Hence why I have created a template page with the following code.
But I dont no how I would get profilename into my query posts and then display the relivent data this is what I have tired so far to get id and permalink to display but to no avail.
I really want to be able to do it like how the documentation states. Ideally i would suspect my best approach would be to check if user has created a profile in the front end if not direct them to do so?.
Display a field
<p><?php the_field('field_name'); ?></p>
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/code-examples/
<?php
/**
* Template Name: Profile Page
*/
get_header(); ?>
<?php get_template_part( 'page', 'title' ); ?>
<div class="width-container">
<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php get_template_part( 'content', 'page' ); ?>
<?php endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>
<?php
$posts = get_posts(array(
'numberposts' => -1,
'post_type' => 'profiles',
'meta_key' => 'profilename',
'meta_value' => 'david'
));
if($posts)
{
echo '<ul>';
foreach($posts as $post)
{
echo '<li>' . get_the_title($post->ID) . '</li>';
}
echo '</ul>';
}
?>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
</div><!-- close .width-container -->
<?php get_footer(); ?>
If anyone has done anything simlar maybe I should be using current user but again i dont no how to link that up to acf as I am new to that plugin

Answer 1

Perhaps you could try another approach and build a custom query with WP_Query instead. The example bellow use the WP_Query object rather than the get_posts function, however the arguments and logic remain the same.
This implies we will find all posts that have a post_type of profiles where the ’custom field’ profilename is equal to david. The custom field ‘profilename’ in this case could be a text field, a radio button or a select field (something that saves a single text value).
<?php
/**
* Template Name: Profile Page
*/
get_header();
$user = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'profilename', true); // saving the field value in a $variable can help to build a more dynamic WP_Query...
?>
<?php get_template_part( 'page', 'title' ); ?>
<div class="width-container">
<h1>__('Listing Posts by:', 'text_domain');</h1>
<?php echo '<p class="text-center">' . esc_html( $user ) . '</p>'?>;
<?php
// args
$args = array(
'numberposts' => -1,
'post_type' => 'profiles',
'meta_key' => 'profilename',
'meta_value' => $user // retrieve the actual profilename field value
);
// query
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
?>
<?php if( $the_query->have_posts() ): ?>
<ul>
<?php while( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
<li>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
<?php the_title(); ?>
</a>
</li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php wp_reset_query(); // Restore global post data stomped by the_post(). ?>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
</div><!-- close .width-container -->
<?php get_footer(); ?>
The code above is an example of how to query ("get and display") posts in WP using WP_Query object within a template based on custom field called ‘profilename’ which has a value of ‘david’ or whatever data is saved inside the field as per your example.
Perhaps you want to display the relevant data (values) of the custom fields you've created for the WP default user profile page, and if this is the case, you should follow another approach and instead of query posts you simply output the fields a user might fill on their profile. In order to that you could Get values from a user.
This example will display the field 'profilename' value from a user with an ID of 1.
<?php the_field('field_name', 'user_1'); ?>
Within your loop you could use $user_ID = get_current_user_id(); to retrieve the user_id as follows:
<?php
/**
* Template Name: Profile Page
*/
get_header();
$user = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'profilename', true); // saving the field value in a $variable can help to build a more dynamic WP_Query...
$user_ID = get_current_user_id();
?>
<?php get_template_part( 'page', 'title' ); ?>
<div class="width-container">
<h5>__('Listing Posts by:', 'text_domain');</h5>
<h1><?php the_field('profilename', '$user_ID'); ?>;</h1> // this will retrieve the data/value saved in the 'profilename' field for the current user
...
Check ACF's Query Posts by Custom Fields documentation for other ways to retrieve an array of post objects from the database using native WP functions.