Add ACF custom fields to a post excerpt

[Oleksiy]

Hello,

I’d like to automatically place custom fields inside post excerpt. The fields are created by Advanced Custom Fields plugin. I discovered Elements -> Hooks, but couldn’t find any ones related to excerpt area. Is it possible to do that? I have a lot of posts and don’t want to do it manually.

Thanks a lot

[Tom]

Hi there,

If you want to attach something to an excerpt, you need to filter it like this:

add_filter( 'the_excerpt', function( $excerpt ) {
    $your_field = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'your_field', true );

    return $excerpt . $your_field;
} );

Hope this helps 🙂

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[Oleksiy]

Hi Tom,

Thank you for the quick response. I tried to use your code via Code Snippets plugin, but unfortunately it didn’t show me any fields, nothing at all. Am I wrong and should place this code in some other place?

There is a code I use in Elements -> Hooks and it works good, but can’t show fields inside excerpts exactly:

<p>Field name 1: <?php the_field('field-id1'); ?></p>
<p>Field name 2: <?php the_field('field-id2'); ?></p>

where field-id1, field-id1 – custom field ids from ACF plugin.

Could you please in summary explain me how to create add_filter() analog and where exactly post the code?

Many thanks

[David]

Hi there,

can you share a link to your site, with Tom’s code added, so we can take a look ?
You can edit your original topic and use the Site URL field to share the link the privately.

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[Oleksiy]

Hi David,

I have a website deployed on localhost right now. After moving it to web hosting I will update the topic.

Thank you

[David]

We’ll be here 🙂

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[Oleksiy]

Tom, David,

I have fixed the issue. The Tom’s code works fine, it was the fault from my end.

Many thanks for you support and fantastic Generate Press theme, especially Pro version 🙂

[Tom]

Glad you got it working! 🙂

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