Originally Posted by sarettah

Hey,

You r welcome but I should have been able to do that without having you send me the file. lol. I ran into something very similar a while back on something I was working on but forgot about it until I was looking at the file.

For the record in case anyone searches on this at some point:

The problem was that the wrong function was being used.

the_field() echoes the value in the field to the page.

get_field() pulls in the value.

So the change was changing the_field() to get_field() and it all worked as expected.

https://www.advancedcustomfields.com...ces/the_field/

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