Getting Saved Data

[jeremylind]

The documentation at https://en.bainternet.info/wordpress-taxonomies-extra-fields-the-easy-way/ is incorrect. It refers to using get_tax_meta to retrieve saved data. Since the update to use the taxmeta table, get_term_meta($term_id, $field_id) is the correct function to use.

[JQOz]

Hi ,

if i paste the vode bwlow in archive.php, i got nothing.

<?php
$saved_data = get_term_meta($term_id,'text_field_id');
echo $saved_data;
?>

Where sholud i use the code? In which file?

[OussamaKhoubran]

Fisrt thing you need to get all categories, use :
$cats = get_categories();

Then loop in the categories to get all categories, will need that to get ID of all categories. use:

foreach ($cats as $cat) { $term_id = $cat->term_id; } }
This code will retrive all the ID of each category, then will use the Tax-Meta-class To output the field content,

The final code will be like This:

foreach ($cats as $cat) {
        // get $term_id
	$term_id = $cat->term_id;

    // use the tax_meta-class, use get_term_meta() instand of get_tax_meta()
    $saved_data = get_term_meta($term_id,'text_field_id');

    // loop in the $saved_data variable
            foreach ($saved_data as $saved_d) {
	         echo $saved_d . '</br>';
        }
}

}`

This will display the custom field content for every category.
I hope that will help you.