[Resolved] Advance Custom Field from category for my category archive header background?

[Melissa]

Hi,

I’ve been using the code below to take a pic from a custom field on a post and use it as the hero image. (Works great! Thanks!) I also have this custom field for each category. Is there a way to set up a query for the category archive page to use that image?

add_filter( 'generate_page_hero_background_image_url', function( $url ) {
    $background_image = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'hero_url', true );

    if ( $background_image ) {
        $url = $background_image;
    }

    return $url;
} );

[Tom]

Hi there,

So you have a custom field in your categories?

According this this: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/taxonomy/

We should be able to do this:

add_filter( 'generate_page_hero_background_image_url', function( $url ) {
    $background_image = get_field( 'taxonomy_field_name' );

    if ( $background_image ) {
        $url = $background_image;
    }

    return $url;
} );

Let me know 🙂

[Melissa]

No luck, alas.

https://theslowroad.org/category/destinations/south-america/ecuador/

(it should be an image of a fox in the grass)

Thanks so much for helping

[Melissa]

But that page is talking about a taxonomy field. I just have a url field (to the image) on each category. This is the same thing I did on the single posts, and that worked.

[Melissa]

(Oddly the Basic URL field isn’t one of the ones in that documentation.)

[Tom]

Where is the URL field exactly? Is it on the page when you’re editing the category? Did you add the URL field using ACF?

[Melissa]

I added it with ACF to the backend page where you edit the category.

[Tom]

So that should work, although I’m not super familiar with ACF, so I could be wrong.

Did you replace taxonomy_field_name in my code with the name you gave the field?

If so, it might be worth checking with their support on how to get a field value from a category.

[Melissa]

Okay, I’ll head over and ask them about it.

[Tom]

If we know how to get the value, we can plug it into the filter.

Let me know 🙂

[Melissa]

They pointed me here:
https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/adding-fields-taxonomy-term/

[Melissa]

I’ve got it working now! Thanks!

[Tom]

Awesome! No problem 🙂

[Samantha]

This is exactly what I need to do and I can’t get it to work.

Could you please share what worked?

I use ACF, but unfortunately I am not a programmer, so the ACF instructions are like another language to me.

I have setup the ACF category image (shows on backend when editing categories and tags for my custom post type). My custome field name is: category_featured_image

Just can’t get it to show in Generatepress header.

Thanks in advance.
Sam

[Elvin]

Hi Sam,

Can you open a new topic for your question?

Thanks. 😀

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