Reply To: How can I initialize options?

• John Huebner

• January 31, 2015 at 3:42 am

I have done this before, and it is usually when I’m working on building a plugin but could be applied to a theme as well.

What I do is export from ACF to code. I then add two functions in the class that I’m building and I separate the field group settings and the fields

A simple class might look like this:

new my_new_class();

class my_new_class {
  
  public function __construct() {
    add_filter('get_my_field_group_fields' array($this, 'get_my_field_group_fields'), 10, 1);
  }
  
  public function get_my_field_group_fields($fields) {
    $fields = array(
                // this is where all the fields used 
                // to create the field group go
              );
    return $fields;
  }
}

Then to initialize my fields, in the function I create to activate the plugin I do:

$feilds = apply_filters('get_my_field_group_fields', array());

I then loop through the list of fields, get the field name, field key and the default value and in the loop create the options that need to be inserted.