advanced custom field Show field in special categry page [closed]

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I am a big fan of Advanced Custom Fields plugin
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/

I developed a site where there are 2 types of categories:
normal and “custom”
most of the categories display normally like any other site showing
the posts in the archive.php page
and some posts archive are displaying in a special “category” template which I created which is styled differently called: “category-projects.php”

this is a special “archive” or “category” page which display different archive template for special posts.

this template works fine and using a function I created and everything looks good.

Now, I am trying to create ACF slider using the great repeater that I have in this special category template. so I created this new group called “post_slider_projects” and a simple repeater field for images called: “post_slide_projects”

Now, I assigned the rules to appear in category and I see it when I am browsing my admin categories section.

until this point everything is working. the only problem is that it is not displaying when I look at the site in this special category page..

here is the code I was using to display it:

<?php if(get_field('post_slider_projects')){ ?>
<div class="post-section">
      <section class="flexslider">
        <ul class="slides">
          <?php while( has_sub_field('post_slider_projects') ){ 
            $post_slide_projects = get_sub_field('post_slide_projects');
            ?>
          <li class="latest-post"> <img alt="" src="https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/143088/<?php echo $post_slide_projects;?>"/> </li>
          <!--latest-post-->
          <?php } ?>
          <?php } else{ ?>
           <img alt="" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/assets/images/slider-img1.jpg"/>
           <?php } ?>
        </ul>
      </section>
    </div>
<?php } ?>

Any help will be appreciated
Thanks a lot

2 Answers
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The ACF API functions normally work with the current post’s ID. Taxonomies and Users work a bit differently, you have to supply the ID of the object you want to fetch fields from.

$category_id = 'category_' . get_queried_object_id();
$field = get_field( 'post_slider_projects', $category_id );

See get_field in the documentation for more info.

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