Repeater ACF field added to a Taxonomy Term isn't displaying on Taxonomy archive template

[StrangeTech]

Description:

We have an ACF field group associated with a taxonomy called Service that contains a Partners repeater field. We want to display the field on the archive template associated with the taxonomy terms.

We have tried putting it directly into the template and tried wrapping a Query around the repeater dynamically using the Archive Taxonomy and Archive Term, to see if that picks up the data but it still doesn’t work.

Is the repeater missing a Location option for the current taxonomy term?

To confirm, we used the exact same ACF field group with a custom post type instead of a custom taxonomy and it worked perfectly in the template, so it is not an issue with the fields themselves.

@Louis, this is a fairly urgent issue as it is affecting our ability to release a site. Any guidance you can provide will be very much appreciated.

Screenshots, screen recording, code snippet

Environment info

• WordPress version: 6.5.2
• Cwicly Plugin version: 1.4.1.3

[StrangeTech]

Confirming also that both text and image fields work fine with taxonomy archives.

So far, it is only:

1. Repeater fields
2. Relationship fields
3. Visibility conditions

…that don’t work.

[StrangeTech]

We have confirmed this is definitely an issue on the Cwicly side, the ACF fields work perfectly using custom code - we have had to drop in code blocks as a workaround.

@Louis, here is our working code for both relationship fields and repeater fields:

Relationship fields:

<?php
add_filter( 'cwicly/query/args', function( $query_args, $attributes, $id ) {
	if ($id === 'query-c6041ea') {
		$term = get_queried_object();
		$partners = get_field("commercial_partners", $term);

		$query_args['post__in'] = $partners;
	}
	return $query_args;
}, 10, 3 );
?>

Repeater fields:

<div class="metrics post-grid">
<?php
$term = get_queried_object();
$stats = get_field( 'stats', $term);

if ( $stats ) {
  foreach ( $stats as $stat ) {
    $stat_title = $stat['title'];
    $stat_content = $stat['content'];
    ?>
    <div class="featured-metric post-content">
      <h2><?php echo $stat_title; ?></h3> 
      <p><?php echo $stat_content; ?></p>
    </div>
    <?php
  }
}
?>
</div>

For the repeaters, I am guessing that as there is no way to set the taxonomy archive as the location, Cwicly is not automatically detecting that the current context is a taxonomy archive and passing the term as the second parameter.

Regarding the relationship query, I think it is probably the same issue - there is no way to specify the current taxonomy archive as the location in the “Posts In”:

Finally, this same issue also affects visibility conditions, we have had to use a custom function for this also, instead of being able to use the built-in ACF field features:

function service_has_stats() {
	$has_stats = false;
	$term = get_queried_object();
	$stats = get_field( 'stats', $term);
	
	if ( $stats ) {
	  $has_stats = count($stats) > 0;
	}
	return $has_stats;
}

[StrangeTech]

@Louis, A somewhat related issue - using the Include Posts of a Query with a dynamic relationship or post field in an options page also doesn’t work, presumably for the same reason, that it requires a second parameter that is not being passed through.

Adding the following code to a code block before the Query block is a functional workaround:

<?php
add_filter( 'cwicly/query/args', function( $query_args, $attributes, $id ) {
	if ($id === 'your-query-block-id-goes-here') {
		$partners = get_field("college_commercial_partners", "option");

		$query_args['post__in'] = $partners;
	}
	return $query_args;
}, 10, 3 );
?>