Reply To: Repeater field in template breaks in PHP 8

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• April 14, 2022 at 2:43 pm

To put a conclusion on this for others who might come after me — embarrassingly it was me — seems i had historically enabled support for shortcodes in my custom fields using:

// enables looking for shortcodes in all types of custom fields
add_filter('acf/format_value', 'do_shortcode');

There it was sitting in my functions.php but apparently this caused no trouble under php 7 and all the trouble under php 8.

So i have scoped this filter to the few fields where I know i need it eg:

// enables looking for shortcodes in all types of custom fields
add_filter('acf/format_value/name=fancy_footer_content', 'do_shortcode');

as clearly documented in https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-format_value/