Reply To: How to disable auto JSON sync for some field groups?

• Tahoe

• November 8, 2021 at 4:31 am

Hi! Thank you for the quick response 🙂

@jarvis I didn’t know about this! It’s interesting. I tried it and it indeed makes the field group disappear from those available for sync. Problem is that if I save the field group again (which I do all the time), the private value will disappear and they’ll start automatically syncing again. I think it would work if there was a way to check a “private” checkbox directly from the field group edit page, but I’m not sure how to do it.

@hube2 What I have is a multisite with a main theme, and every subsite has a child theme. Each subsite has an options page with three subpages (each of them containing one field group). I want to sync only one of those subpages, the other two need to be modified frequently to fit their site’s needs.

In the main theme’s functions.php, I put two things: a filter to change the saving location of the JSON, and another one to change the loading location, like this:

add_filter('acf/settings/save_json', 'my_acf_json_save_point');
function my_acf_json_save_point($path) {
    // update path
    $path = get_template_directory() . '/custom-fields';
    
    // return
    return $path;
}

// changes loading location for custom fields
add_filter('acf/settings/load_json', 'my_acf_json_load_point');
function my_acf_json_load_point( $paths ) {
    // remove original path (optional)
    unset($paths[0]);
    
    // append path
    $paths[] = get_template_directory() . '/custom-fields';
    
    // return
    return $paths;
}

Hope that’s clear! Again, thank you for your help