How to retrieve items entered in the menu with Advanced Custom Fields

2024-12-27

Here's how to retrieve items using `get_field()` when using the WordPress plugin 'Advanced Custom Fields' with custom menus.

What I want to do

Set the display condition for Advanced Custom Fields to 'Menu'

Enter values into the custom fields of the relevant menu

Here's how to retrieve these values within your theme files.

I was able to retrieve it by adding the prefix menu_ to the second argument of `get_field`.

get_field('key', 'menu_' . $menu_id);

For example, if you want to retrieve the value of the custom field 'copyright' for a menu named 'footer', do this:

$menu_id = wp_get_nav_menu_object('footer')->term_id;
get_field('copyright', 'menu_' . $menu_id);

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