Reply To: Field Key Difference ACF4/5

• John Huebner

• July 15, 2014 at 12:00 pm

I find that extremely interesting. For example, this is a field I created for a plugin for ACF4

array('key' => '_acf_key_acfop_menu',
      'label' => 'Menu Text',
      'name' => '_acfop_menu',
      'type' => 'text',
      'instructions' => 'Will default to title if left blank.',
      'default_value' => '',
      'placeholder' => '',
      'prepend' => '',
      'append' => '',
      'formatting' => 'none',
      'maxlength' => '')

I was thinking to myself… “It would be nice if all those fields didn’t appear in the ‘Custom Fields’ drop down in WP”… so I tried changing them to start with an underscore. When that worked I just started changing the “key” value to whatever I wanted and that worked.

If this is a bug in ACF4 I would ask that it’s a bug you ignore. 😛

~JH