ACF field integration?

Hi @ionz149,

There’s no native ACF integration but there might be a way to implement it. Show me your code and I’ll give you a hand.

I am also banging my head against the ‘my_custom_popular_posts_html_list’ examples in documentation in case that is a better approach but I am a little in over my head 🙂

Yeah, I know that feeling. That’s the reason why I recently implemented a new filter hook that a lot easier to use: wpp_parse_custom_content_tags. And we’re going to use it right now.

I’m sure you’re aware that the post_html parameter accepts what I call “Content Tags” (eg. {thumb}), which are basically placeholders that are replaced with predefined HTML content. Since version 4.2.0, you can add your own custom Content Tags by registering them via the filter hook I linked above.

Since we’re both developers, I’m sure you want to see some actual code to understand what I’m talking about so here it goes:

/**
 * Parses custom content tags in WordPress Popular Posts.
 *
 * @param  string  $html    The HTML markup from the plugin.
 * @param  integer $post_id The post/page ID.
 * @return string
 */
function wpp_parse_tags_in_popular_posts( $html, $post_id ){

    // Replace custom content tag {acf_video} with an actual video
    if ( false !== strpos($html, '{acf_video}') ) {

        // Get the video from ACF
        $acf_video = get_field( 'featured_video', $post_id );

        // This post has a video assigned via ACF, 
        // so let's display it
        if ( $acf_video ) {
            // Replace {acf_video} with the video returned by ACF
            $html = str_replace( '{acf_video}', $acf_video, $html );
        } // No video found
        else {
            // Replace {acf_video} with an empty string
            $html = str_replace( '{acf_video}', '', $html );
        }
    }

    return $html;

}
add_filter( "wpp_parse_custom_content_tags", "wpp_parse_tags_in_popular_posts", 10, 2 );

This is what the above function does:

1. The function gets the HTML string passed to post_html and the ID of the post being rendered by WPP,
2. Next, it checks if there’s a Content Tag called {acf_video} present and, if so, also checks if there’s a video assigned to the post via AFC’s get_field() function.
3. If AFC’s get_field() returns a value, then we assume we have a video and so we’ll replace the {acf_video} tag with the value returned by ACF.
4. If AFC’s get_field() returns false, we remove the {acf_video} tag (or you can display something else instead if you prefer).
5. Finally, we return the parsed HTML string back to WPP.

Now, all you need to do is add {acf_video} to the post_html parameter and WPP will replace it with the actual video:

<?php
$args = array(
    'wpp_start' => '<div class="main-carousel">',
    'wpp_end' => '</div>',
    'post_html' => '<div class="carousel-cell"><div class="image">{thumb}</div><div class="data"><span class="cats">{category}</span><span class="date">{date} </span></div><h4><a href="{url}">{text_title}</a></h4>{acf_video}</div>',
    'thumbnail_width' => '298',
    'thumbnail_height' => '203',
    'stats_date' => '1',
    'stats_category' => '1',
    'limit' => '8'
);
wpp_get_mostpopular( $args );
?>

If you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask, alright?

Don’t mention it. Glad I could help!