Retrieving ACF Flexible Content when layout contains Post Object

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This has me stumped. I looked at the KB and I can see how to retrieve a ‘text’, ‘image’, etc. from a layout field but I can’t figure out how to get anything out of a post object.

I expected something like this:

[wpbb-acf-flex name='flex_content']
    [wpbb-acf-layout name='layout_1']
			[wpbb post:acf type='post_object' name='row_post' field='publication_date']
    [/wpbb-acf-layout]
[/wpbb-acf-flex]

To return the ‘publication_date’ meta value. What am I doing wrong?

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Did you try [wpbb post:acf_relational type=‘post_object’ name=‘your-field’]?
Also, your quotes must be straight.

If Themer can’t handle this, you could try your luck with CCS:

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Thanks. I am using straight quotes, it’s just being changed by the forum.

Your example works to retrieve a link to the post (I’m unclear why the object comes back as HTML) but I still can’t figure out how to retrieve information from the object via shortcode. For example, what if I simply wanted a metadata field, created with ACF or otherwise, stored in that post? Can that be done via shortcode, and if so, how?

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Try CCS: see above :wink: