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ACF shortcodes previously working, not working any more

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Jul 4, 2022 at 2:22 pm #174737

Linsey Perry
Participant

Hi there,

I have been using ACF in conjunction with WPDM link templates, which pull two text fields.

They have stopped working (just displaying the shortcode, as opposed to the contents of the field). I have tried various versions of the shortcode, including [acf field=”fieldname”] and [acf_group_fieldname] the latter of which had been working fine. The former doesn’t show anything — on-page Inspect shows an empty p tag where this should be.

I’ve also tried rebuilding the ACF field group and WPDM template, neither of which works.

I don’t know the exact date that this stopped working.

Please advise.
L

Jul 5, 2022 at 12:15 pm #174790

Tanvir
Moderator

Hello @vebrolinsey,

Hope you are well. First of all please update wpdm to the latest version 6.2.0 and ACF to 2.2.8
Then if the issue still persists, Could you please send me related url and also I request you to please share your temporary website admin credentials in a private reply so that I can take a closer look and work with you to get this working.

Here are the details I’ll need –

# Page URL of issue
# Username
# Password

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Jul 5, 2022 at 1:14 pm #174793

Linsey Perry
Participant
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Jul 6, 2022 at 7:26 am #174817

Tanvir
Moderator

Hello @vebrolinsey,

to add custom fields and show them through shortcodes as you want, there are a few steps to follow.
First of all you need the below addon of wpdm

Advanced Custom Fields

    Then you have to create the custom fields from this option.
    Then you have to add the acf shortcode in page template or link template to use that.
    After that you have to input acf value from the package edit page.
    To show the acf value in wp_all_packages shortcode, you have to add colheads and cols with the acf title and id.

Let me know please if you can do it or you need help.

Thanks

Jul 6, 2022 at 8:14 am #174825

Linsey Perry
Participant

Hi there,

I saw the email update for another comment which doesn’t seem to be showing in the thread above. You mentioned there that my approach wasn’t possible, but as it was working up until recently with the free version of ACF, I’m unsure on why this functionality has dropped off.

Linsey

Jul 6, 2022 at 5:55 pm #174862

Tanvir
Moderator

Hello Linsey,
You can ignore the first reply I provided. I replied that with confusion.
Also I don’t think that acf plugin worked before. Maybe you used wpdm acf addon. Wpdm acf works in this way.
However, I need to inspect the issue properly from your site. Please provide temporary admin access in a private reply here to check the issue properly. It is secured.

Thanks

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