Reply To: acf_form no data on the frontend for individual field.

• John Huebner

• December 29, 2020 at 2:01 am

You cannot edit only the sub fields on a front end form without including the parent field.

The way to do this would be to include the group field in your front end form and then use an acf/prepare_field filter for each of the fields that you do not want to show and return false for these fields on the front end. Use the field key variant.

a quick example

add_filter('acf/prepare_field/key=field_XXXXXXX', 'hide_acf_field_on_front');
function hide_acf_field_on_front($field) {
  if (is_admin()) {
    // allow field in admin
    return $field;
  }
  // hide on front
  return false;
}