Hi Ross

Thanks for getting back to me. Actually I probably didn’t explain myself very well. All I wanted to do was return the results of some simple custom fields in the search results, which I have managed to do in my own clumsy hacking way, by using the get_field for ACF, which works great for me. But I’m having a strange issue with the search results, the post date, which I think is a standard result you would expect to see from your standard results.php template and which I have left in my ‘updated’ version is not automatically showing up – it’s really strange. If I set the CPT published date to something random like two weeks previous it shows in the results, but if I just create a new CPT it just doesn’t show up at all.

I wonder if you have come across this issue before – I realise I should really start a new thread, and I will if there’s not a straight forward answer.

Anyway this is my code for returning the Custom Fields with the post_date towards the end:

while ($query->have_posts())
{
$query->the_post();

?>
<div class=”searchresult”>

<h2>“><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<?php $field = get_field(“location”, $post_id, $format_value);
$value = get_field( “company” );

if( $value ) {

echo ‘<div class=”resultcompany”>’;
echo ‘<h4 class=”resulttitle”>’ . “company” . ‘: </h3>’;
echo ‘<h4 class=”resultvalue”> ‘ . $value . ‘</h3>’;
echo ‘</div>’;
}

$field = get_field(“deadline”, $post_id, $format_value);
$value = get_field( “location” );

if( $value ) {

echo ‘<div class=”resultlocation”>’;
echo ‘<h4 class=”resulttitle”>’ . “location” . ‘: </h3>’;
echo ‘<h4 class=”resultvalue”> ‘ . $value . ‘</h3>’;
echo ‘</div>’;
}

$field = get_field(“deadline”, $post_id, $format_value);
$value = get_field( “deadline” );

if( $value ) {

echo ‘<div class=”resultdeadline”>’;
echo ‘<h4 class=”resulttitle”>’ . “deadline” . ‘: </h3>’;
echo ‘<h4 class=”resultvalue”> ‘ . $value . ‘</h3>’;
echo ‘</div>’;
}
?>

<p class=”resultpostdate”>Vacancy Posted: <?php the_date(); ?></p>

</div>

<?php
}
?>

Thanks in advance Ross!