How to display term field in post sidebar

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April 10, 2023 at 1:29 PM #41403

Roderick
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Hi, I'm trying to display a category custom field value inside of the sidebar of a post with that same category. I would like to use MB Views so I can add a few conditions.

Using {{ term.bookinglink }} doesnt display anything and only seems to work on the category page. What do I have to do to make this work?

Thanks in advance,
Rod

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April 10, 2023 at 7:39 PM #41408

Peter
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Hello Rod,

Please follow the documentation to understand the main query https://docs.metabox.io/extensions/mb-views/#main-query

So in this case, if you use term.bookinglink, it will not return the term meta value. You can use the helper function rwmb_meta() to get the term meta. For example:

{{ mb.rwmb_meta( 'bookinglink', { object_type: 'term' }, 123 ) }}

Please read more on the documentation
https://docs.metabox.io/extensions/mb-views/#running-php-functions
https://docs.metabox.io/extensions/mb-term-meta/#getting-field-value

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April 12, 2023 at 2:18 AM #41444
Roderick
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Thank you very much Peter. I was wondering, is it also possible to use a shortcode to set the term ID? This shortcode is placed in my functions.php file and outputs the ID of the primary category of my post: [yoast-primary-category-id]. I want to use this to set the term ID dynamically.

I tried to use a function 'do_shortcode' for the shortcode, but this does not seem to work.
Hope you have an idea for this too?
```
{% set category_id = mb.function('do_shortcode', '[yoast-primary-category-id]') %}
{% set term_bookinglink = mb.rwmb_meta( 'bookinglink', { object_type: 'term' }, category_id ) %}
{{ term_bookinglink }}
```
Thanks a million,
Rod

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April 12, 2023 at 6:58 PM #41461

Peter
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Hello,

You can use the proxy mb. to call the PHP function do_shortcode() directly without using function(). For example:
{% set category_id = mb.do_shortcode('[yoast-primary-category-id]') %}

Or you can try to use the PHP function yoast_get_primary_term_id() to get the Yoast primary term ID

{% set category_id = mb.yoast_get_primary_term_id( 'taxonomy_slug', post_id_or_object ) %}

Please read more here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38800626/how-to-get-primary-category-set-via-yoast-seo-plugin-in-wordpress

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April 13, 2023 at 11:49 AM #41473

Roderick
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Thank you once again Peter! I got it working thanks to you.

I wish Metabox tutorials would contain a bit more of these types of 'micro lessons' and how to's.

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