Code provided not working for ACF fields

Hi,

I have a WYSIWYG field within ACF and I am using the WP Media to show images. I undertsand that there is some custom code that is needed to make this work on template pages. I found this via previous tickets however I cannot seem to get this to work.

The code I have is:

$figures = the_field('lesson_figures');
if ( function_exists('slb_activate') ) {
    $figures = slb_activate($figures);

}
echo $figures;

I’m not sure what i have done wrong? The code does output the custom field so i can see the images on my page however when I click on the image it just links to the media file?

Thanks
Ben

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