I’ve added a custom field as color-code
to my categories, and I want to show the categories of each post with that color code on it. I tried the code below, but it doesn’t work in the way I need.
<div class="blog-post-grids">
<?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$args = array('post_type' => 'post', 'posts_per_page' => 9, 'paged' => $paged);
$wp_query = new WP_Query($args);
while (have_posts()): the_post();?>
<?php
$color = get_field('color-code', the_category());
?>
<figure class="blog-post-cart">
<div><?php the_post_thumbnail();?></div>
<figcaption>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">
<h2><?php the_title()?></h2>
</a>
<p style="color: <?php echo $color ?>">
<?php echo the_category(', ') ?>
</p>
<?php the_content(''); ?>
</figcaption>
</figure>
<?php endwhile;?>
</div>
2
Answers
It depends on the color code type
If it hex add # before,
Or make sure it’s in rgb format like rgb(143 98 188)
To do this, you will need the category’s ID, as outlined here:
https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/adding-fields-taxonomy-term/
Your get_field() would be formatted like this:
Where "123" is the ID of the Category.
Right before the get_field like, add this:
$thisCategory will be an array of all of the categories attached to the current post in the loop.
Then replace your $color = get_field() line with this:
$thisCategory[0]->term_id will return the category ID of the first category attached to the post.
So to put it all together, this would be the new code: