putting the shortcode into my template

you almost have it. Try:

<?php echo do_shortcode('[expand title="'.the_sub_field('question_title').'"]'.the_sub_field('question_answer').'[/expand]'); ?>

Please let us know if this works for you.

Ok, cool, the error message isn’t coming up any more, but I’m still not getting the collapsing functionality. All of the Qs and As are just laid out on the page. But the arrows are clickable and change back and forth between pointing up and down! ??

under the plugin option page (Dashboard > Settings > Collapse-O-Matic) check and make sure that the check box for “Shortcode Loads Scripts” is UNchecked.

For further assistance you will need to share a link so we can trouble shoot further.

It is unchecked.

Can I email you a link and login? I have the site hidden at the moment since it’s in development. Thank you!

yes. just be sure to include a link to this thread and shoot it to us info [at] twinpictures [dot] de

thank you! emails will come from websmith [at] eeep [dot] com

We took a look, and the_sub_field('question_answer') is returning NULL.

var_dump(the_sub_field('question_answer'));

Please verify that the_sub_field('question_answer') is the correct way to call the faq answer.

Interesting. That is the correct field name. I took a screen shot of the ACF page that shows the fieldnames: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s30/sh/9016444c-eaf8-44dc-80e9-a8058c0f2491/1ad47ac4cd63bf1438ececb6d026bb49

If you look at the FAQ page (https://eeep.com/crl/faq-for-physicians/), you’ll see that the contents of that field show up in the page…so I’m not sure how it returns NULL. (Unless I’m not understanding what you’re saying!)

Do you have any other ideas on this issue?

It’s fixed. I prevailed upon a colleague to take a look. Here’s what he did:

Just made a couple of simple changes. You just needed to change “the_sub_field” to “get_sub_field”. The “the_” call will display the information whereas “get_” stores a value which works with the plugin because it’s creating a link from the title.

I’ve left the title as the_field – however, if you change this to “get_sub_field” it will create the title as a link and move the arrow to the left of the title. It’s up to you I don’t think it effects usability at all.

I simply deleted

<?php

//var_dump(the_sub_field(‘question_answer’)); //returns null

echo do_shortcode(‘[expand title=”‘.the_sub_field(‘question_title’).'”]’.the_sub_field(‘question_answer’).'[/expand]’);

?>

and replaced it with

<?php

//var_dump(the_sub_field(‘question_answer’)); //returns null
$title = the_sub_field(‘question_title’);
$answer = get_sub_field(‘question_answer’);

echo do_shortcode(‘[expand title=”‘ . $title . ‘”]’ . $answer . ‘[/expand]’);

?>

glad you got it working