Option page's field order is different from setting.

• nori2tae

• December 17, 2015 at 2:44 pm

I was able to have an option page under a custom post type by following the topic.

http://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/add-submenu-to-a-custom-post-type-menu/

However, the field order is wrong. Let’s say I have few fields and arranged them by drag n’ drop in ACF setting page like so:

1. name – text field
2. longname – text field
3. picture – image field
4. summary – wysiwyg field

Then I go to the options page and the field order is messed up.

2. longname – text field (newest)
4. summary – wysiwyg field
1. name – text field
3. picture – image field

I think this is ordered by date of creation (the newer on top).

The hook I used is init to register option page.
I noticed, I dont know if this have to do with problem, I was redirected from
edit.php?post_type=MY_POST_TYPE&page=MY_OPTION_PAGE_NAME
to
admin.php?page=MY_OPTION_PAGE_NAME
after saving the options page and the field order is BACK TO NORMAL! strange…

Any help will be appreciated.

• nori2tae

• December 28, 2015 at 1:29 pm

anyone has idea?

• James

• January 8, 2016 at 3:31 pm

Hi @nori2tae,

I’m afraid that I can’t reproduce this issue on my end. Could you please tell me where do you put the code? Is it functions.php? If it is, you don’t need the init hook at all. You can add the options page as simple as this:

if(function_exists(acf_add_options_page)){
    acf_add_options_sub_page(array(
        'page_title' 	=> 'Custom post options',
        'menu_title'	=> 'Options',
        'parent_slug'	=> 'edit.php?post_type=custom_post_slug',
    ));
}

I hope this helps.

• nori2tae

• January 11, 2016 at 1:14 pm

@James

Thanks for the solution.
But unfortunately didn’t work for me.

I did put the code in my functions.php and removed init hook as you suggested, but still ignoring my settings.

I will keep finding the solution, however, since there are all fields I need I just use it as is.

Thank you.

• James

• January 11, 2016 at 5:26 pm

Hi @nori2tae,

Could you please try this code?

acf_add_options_sub_page(array(
    'page_title' 	=> 'Custom post options',
    'menu_title'	=> 'Options',
    'parent_slug'	=> 'edit.php?post_type=custom_post_slug',
));

Please change the “custom_post_slug” with your custom post slug. Notice that we use acf_add_options_sub_page instead of acf_add_options_page.

If there is no options page under the custom post type, please try to reproduce the issue on one of the WordPress’ stock themes with other plugins deactivated. If still no joy after that, please email [email protected] and provide the detail of the issue and temporary credentials so we can check it up for you.

I hope this helps.

• nori2tae

• January 11, 2016 at 8:16 pm

@James

I found the problem. As you said, I deactivated all plugins except ACF, and rechecked functions.php then I found a little function I wrote to reorder posts by date in admin page. That was it.

I am really really embarrassed and sorry for the trouble.
Just in case,

function my_stupid_function($wp-query) {
global $pagenow;
   if ( is_admin() && 'edit.php' == $pagenow && !isset($_GET['orderby'])) {
     $wp_query->set( 'orderby', 'date' );
     $wp_query->set( 'order', 'DESC' );
   }
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'my_stupid_function' );

• James

• January 12, 2016 at 3:09 pm

Hi @nori2tae

That is great. Glad that you found the issue. Yeah, sometimes we forgot about the little function we wrote before. Don’t feel embarrassed about it 🙂