Reply To: Repeater – Instruction placement

• Nugerama

• September 8, 2021 at 10:26 am

Posting my workaround here in case it’s of use to anyone stumbling across this issue. First I use acf/load_field to move the instructions to a new item in the array and empty the instructions item, checking first to see if this is a child of my repeater field. Then I filter the output of all fields using acf/render_field to see if there’s an ‘instructions_below’ item in the array and output it after the input.

add_filter( 'acf/load_field', 'tweak_repeater_instructions' );
function tweak_repeater_instructions( $field ) {

	if( 'group_123xyz' !== $field['parent'] ) return $field;

	$field['instructions_below'] = $field['instructions'];
	$field['instructions'] = '';

	return $field;
}

add_filter( 'acf/render_field', 'position_repeater_instructions' );
function position_repeater_instructions( $field ) {

	if( ! isset( $field['instructions_below'] ) ) return;

	echo '<p class="description">'.$field['instructions_below'].'</p>';
}