Dynamic Data

Hi there,

ACF will work with Dynamic Data, but only for basic fields today, we have more planned for the future. It won’t handle repeater or relationships for example. But it can do a lot of things, and a lot more things with some code.

So – a question – is it just the Organisation name that you need to appear on the post ?

And could that just be Taxonomy Term ? such as a Tag or custom taxonomy ?

Ok, so you can register a new taxonomy with a little PHP. Are you ok with WP creating archive pages for the new terms ?

Ok, so this site is handy for creating custom taxonomies and other stuff:

https://generatewp.com

I made a quick example here, with the Tax named: Organisations

function db_custom_taxonomy() {

  $labels = array(
    'name'              => _x( 'Organisations', 'taxonomy general name' ),
    'singular_name'     => _x( 'Organisation', 'taxonomy singular name' ),
    'search_items'      => __( 'Search Organisations' ),
    'all_items'         => __( 'All Organisations' ),
    'parent_item'       => null,
    'parent_item_colon' => null,
    'edit_item'         => __( 'Edit Organisation' ),
    'update_item'       => __( 'Update Organisation' ),
    'add_new_item'      => __( 'Add New Organisation' ),
    'new_item_name'     => __( 'New Organisation Name' ),
    'menu_name'         => __( 'Organisations' ),
  );

  $args = array(
    'hierarchical'      => false, // set to false for a non-hierarchical taxonomy
    'labels'            => $labels,
    'show_ui'           => true,
    'show_admin_column' => true,
    'query_var'         => true,
    'rewrite'           => array( 'slug' => 'organisation' ), // change the slug to your preferred URL format
    'show_in_rest'      => true, // enable REST API support
  );

  register_taxonomy( 'organisation', array( 'post' ), $args );
}
add_action( 'init', 'db_custom_taxonomy' );

Once thats added it will register the new tax to your single posts.
And we can use dynamic data options to display those terms.

You’re welcome

Ok, to get a taxonomy custom fields on a single post today, requires PHP today, its something we will look to add in GB Pro in the future.

For the Name and Description add this PHP Snippet:

add_filter( 'render_block', function( $block_content, $block ) {

    if ( 
        ! empty( $block['attrs']['className'] ) && 
        strpos($block['attrs']['className'], 'organisation-field') !== false
    ) {

        // get the organisation terms
        $terms = get_the_terms( get_the_ID(), 'organisation' );
        // there are terms get the fields
        if ( $terms && ! is_wp_error( $terms ) ) {
            $term = $terms[0];
            $name = get_field( 'name', $term );
            $description = term_description( $term );
        }
        if (
            strpos($block['attrs']['className'], 'org-name') !== false
        ) {
            $block_content = str_replace( 'org-name', $name , $block_content );
        }
        if (
            strpos($block['attrs']['className'], 'org-description') !== false
        ) {
            $block_content = str_replace( 'org-description', $description , $block_content );
        }
    }
    return $block_content;
}, 10, 2 );

NOTEs:

1. here is where we you set the custom field name for the orgnanisation name:

$name = get_field( ‘name’, $term );

2. the select block to show the name and give it the Advanced > CSS classes of:

organisation-field org-name

3. the select block to show the description and give it CSS classes of:

organisation-field org-description

For the Button URL add this PHP Snippet

add_filter('generateblocks_dynamic_url_output', function($url, $attributes) {
    if (
        !empty($attributes['className']) && 
        strpos($attributes['className'], 'org-home') !== false
    ) {
        $terms = get_the_terms( get_the_ID(), 'organisation' );
        // there are terms get the fields
        if ( $terms && ! is_wp_error( $terms ) ) {
            $term = $terms[0];
            $homepage = get_field( 'homepage', $term );
        }
        if ($homepage) {
            $url = $homepage;
        }
    }
    return $url;
}, 10, 2);

Notes:

1. $homepage = get_field( 'homepage', $term ); is where you set the homepage url custom field name.
2. the button should have CSS Classes of: org-home

You don’t add any dynamic data to the blocks.
Just place some static text in the headline blocks,
And for the Buttons add a label and in the link add a #

Oh, and in both those snippets see this:

$terms = get_the_terms( get_the_ID(), 'organisation' );

The organisation is the name of the custom taxonomy – make sure that is correct

Its me being an idiot 🙂

Lets deal with the name and description – see here:

https://generate.support/topic/dynamic-data/#post-6004

I updated the first snippet below: For the Name and Description add this PHP Snippet:

Can you try that

Ok. thats good – i updated that code again.

Now in your headline blocks, edit those.
And the one displaying the Name, in the block type: org-name
And for the description type: org-description

The code will replace those strings with the dynamic data.

And then we can do the button 🙂