Reply To: Manually trigger acf-json sync

• swinggraphics

• January 24, 2020 at 4:35 pm

This is working well for me, with the option to make the loaded fields editable or not:

/* Default ACF fields */
function my_default_acf_fields() {
	if ( ! acf_get_field_groups() ) {
		$acf_json_data = @file_get_contents ( MY_PLUGIN_DIR . 'vendor/acf-json/my-acf-groups.json' );
		if ( $acf_json_data && $custom_fields = json_decode( $acf_json_data, true ) ) {
			foreach ( $custom_fields as $custom_field ) {
				acf_import_field_group( $custom_field ); // editable
				// acf_add_local_field_group( $custom_field ); // not editable
			}
		}
	}
}
add_action( 'acf/init', 'my_default_acf_fields' );