Still having trouble with adding content above calendar

[Greg]

Jonah had previously helped me out with this issue: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/shortcodes-in-page-template/#post-30866

As suggested, I installed the Advanced Custom Fields plugin with Options add-on. I created a custom field group and an option. The field name is “calendar_text”.

In my functions.php I created a filter to display this on the calendar month page only, along with some text:

add_filter( ‘genesis_after_post_title’, ‘genesis_after_post_title_filter’ );
function genesis_after_post_title_filter() { ?>

text text text

<? }

The text displays, but the option I added does not. This is what happened when I tried to add a shortcode, as well as the template code from the Improved Include Plugin. This leads me to believe it's not a problem with the ACF plugin, but I'm not sure I have the template code right for ACF either. Can you please help?

[Greg]

Hmm not all my code displayed:
function genesis_after_post_title_filter() { ?>

text text text

<? }

[Greg]

Grr…how do you post code on here?

[Greg]

This is the code I have to call my option:

[Greg]

[code][/code]

[Greg]

Sorry, obviously I don’t know what I am doing 🙁

[Greg]

the_field($calendar_text, ‘option’);

[Jonah]

Hi Linda,

Can you please post the code you are using to http://snippi.com/

Thanks,
Jonah

[Leah]

Hey Lindy,

As you’ve found, posting code into the forums doesn’t work. If you could please post it using Pastebin, Gist or a similar service, that would be great.

Cheers,
Leah

[Greg]

Thanks for being patient with me 🙂
Here’s my code. http://snippi.com/s/2rcpta0
As I mentioned above, the text displays, but the option I added does not. This is what happened when I tried to add a shortcode, as well as the template code from the Improved Include Plugin. This leads me to believe it’s not a problem with the ACF plugin, but I’m not sure I have the template code right for ACF either. Can you please help?

[Jonah]

Hi Lindy,

If your custom field is ‘calendar_text’ then you need to call it like this instead:

the_field('calendar_text', 'options');

Please see the Advanced Custom Fields documentation for more info: http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/docs/

Cheers,
Jonah

[Greg]

So I did that, and now my calendar moved over to the left and some random text appeared below the calendar. The text I added via the options add-on is still not appearing above the calendar.

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[Jonah]

Hey Lindy,

Sorry about that, it should be:

the_field('calendar_text', 'option');

And it looks like you should be able to use the variable name too… I’m not sure why it’s not working for you. Make sure you have the custom field created and perhaps try posting to the ACF support forum to see why it’s not working for you.

– Jonah

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