[Resolved] ACF custom fields in elements

Hi George,

The shortcode itself doesnt have is_user_logged_in() condition so its likely not your code.

To clarify: believe the Block Element that contains this shows up and it’s only this part that doesn’t?

Can you link me to a sample page in question (perhaps provide temporary backend access as well to check)?

Let us know. 😀

Note: I’ll try clearing page cache if your site has one (CDN, server-side, plugin)

Ah I see what seems to be the issue here.

I think its step #4.

The dynamic value for post meta only pulls from the $source in GP Premium’s class-block-elements.php and this $source is whatever you’ve assigned to the display rule location.

And since you cant use gp_element as its own source on the display rule, it displays nothing.

I think you’ll need a different approach for this. An approach where years_in_business is a global value instead of something you have to assign on an ACF.

example:

Making it global.

function footer_global_vars() {

	global $footerValues;
	$footerValues = array(
		'years_in_business'  => '25',
	);

}
add_action( 'parse_query', 'footer_global_vars' );

And then create shortcode for it so you can place it on a Block.

add_shortcode( 'years_in_business', function() {
    ob_start();
    global $footerValues;
    echo '<span class="years-in-business">'.$footerValues['years_in_business'].'</span>';
  
    return ob_get_clean();
} ); 

I would like that number to increase by one after a certain date (14th March 2022) and then increase by one a year after that date and so on. For example, on 14th March 2022, it would increase to 26, 14th March 2023 to 27, etc.

I think you should have a $year_started variable and then do a value difference variable between the $year_started date and the date() which is the current date.

This way, the “years_in_business” value is dynamic. 😀

Ponder on this example:

Say, for example, the year started value is “January 31, 1995” which is 1995-01-31 in Y-m-d format.

We can do something like this.

function footer_global_vars() {
    $year_started = new DateTime('1995-01-31' ));
    $current_date = new DateTime(date('Y-m-d'));
    $years_count = $post_date->diff($current_date);
    $years_in_business = $years_count->y;

	global $footerValues;
	$footerValues = array(
		'years_in_business'  => $years_in_business,
	);

}
add_action( 'parse_query', 'footer_global_vars' );

This snippet basically compares the value between the year started date and the current date the visitor checked the site. It then counts the year difference between the 2 values and then assigned the year difference as a global value. 😀

Ah my bad. I forgot to change this line $years_count = $post_date->diff($current_date); to this line $years_count = $year_started->diff($current_date);

The code here:
$years_in_business = $years_count->y;

What is the y refer to?

It’s the differences between the 2 dates in “years”.

Nice one. Glad to be of any help. No problem.

To add: you can do a var_dump($years_count) to see the complete date difference incase you want to fetch more (months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds.). I think you’ll get the things you need(or in case you need it) once you see the whole array. 😀

Also, if you want to style it specifically, you can add element+selector on the shortcode.

you can modify this line : echo $footerValues['years_in_business']; to something like this.

echo '<span class="years-in-business">.'$footerValues['years_in_business'].'</span>';

so you can style it with .years-in-business { //your css here }

Perfect. In my case, I just use the shortcode into a headline element as it can accept shortcodes. I, then, style the headline element, it works great.

Ah yeah that makes sense. Glad you got it sorted. 😀