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sanclementejoe

I have a custom taxonomy called stores, so I can't use the code for a standard category as defined here http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_category

So I took a look at http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_term_by but can't figure what I need to do.

This is my code

<?php $cat_id = 47;
  $value = get_field('extended_store_descriptions', 'stores_' . $cat_id );
  echo $value;
  ?>

All I need to do is make that number 47 dynamic instead of static and I've tried this:

<?php
  $cat_id = get_query_var('stores');
  $value = get_field('extended_store_descriptions', 'stores_' . $cat_id );
  echo $value;
  
  ?>

But that didn't work. I don't know if I should be using this:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_post_terms

or this

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_terms

Thanks so much!

sanclementejoe

Hopefully some kind soul with the chops can help me out:

When I do this:

<?php
  $terms = get_the_terms($post->ID, 'stores');  
  
  print_r($terms);
  ?>

It gets me close to what I want:

This is outputted:

Array ( [47] => stdClass Object ( [term_id] => 47 [name] => Amazon.com [slug] => amazon-com [term_group] => 0 [term_taxonomy_id] => 49 [taxonomy] => stores [description] => Amazon Coupon Codes Amazon is the world's largest online retailer. The company also produces consumer electronics, and is a major provider of cloud computing services. [parent] => 0 [count] => 1 [object_id] => 40 ) )

But I only want the number 47 in there

TylerNYC

$terms['term_id']

sanclementejoe

I figured it out with some help from this page: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/trying-to-output-a-posts-terms-taxonomy-as-text-not-urls#post-1188801

<?php
  // Get terms for post
  $terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID , 'stores' );
  
  // Loop over each item since it's an array
  foreach( $terms as $term ) {
  // Print the term_id method from $term which is an OBJECT
  // $lovers will be grabs the current store page id
  $lovers= $term->term_id;
  // Get rid of the other data stored in the object, since it's not needed
  unset($term);
  }
  ?>

<?php
  $cat_id = $lovers;
  $value = get_field('extended_store_descriptions', 'stores_' . $cat_id );
  echo $value;
  
  ?>

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