Need Help Using Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) with Genesis (and Agency Theme)

[anotherusername]

Hi there, Everyone:

How do I show a custom field for a Category if I am using Advanced Custom Fields???

I want to show a different block of text on each Category page.

I created a text area custom field for my Categories. The field name is:

category_footer

Now how do I actually display that "category_footer" custom field on the Category pages?

I have genesis simple hooks plugin installed:

I have tried using short codes:

[acf field="category_footer"]

And that did not work. So I tried using PHP:

<p><?php the_field('category_footer'); ?></p>

But that did not work either.

And yes, when I tried to use short codes, I did check the "Use shortcodes" box, and when I tried to use php, I did check the "use php" box.

The data exists in the BACKEND ok. By that, I mean that if i go to a category page and enter text into the "category_footer" custom footer, then that data will stay there.

But I have no idea how to access that data on the front end.

What code should I use and WHERE does it need to go???

By the way; I have the location rules for my "category_footer" custom field set as the following:

Show this field group if Taxonomy Term is equal to Categories

I don't use tags / taxonimies of any kind (at least as far as I know).

Thanks in advance.

LAMENT: The documentation for ACF is not particularly user friendly, and the support for this plugin is really not very good, which is too bad because it is apparently a VERY POWERFUL plugin.

http://www.thebuddhagarden.com/blog/about-buddhism/

[Brad Dalton]

Here's some code you can modify to displays the output of your custom fields simply by changing the hook position and conditional tag http://wpsites.net/web-design/how-to-create-a-custom-field/

The field name will need to match what you use in the ACF plugin settings.

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[silver darling]

just an opinion -

I find docs and support for ACF paid version are very good. much better than my experience with genesis so far.

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