Reply To: Use PHP to add a field which can be managed in Admin?

• mcoop3r

• July 7, 2015 at 7:33 am

Ok could be moving in the right direction…

So I didn’t mention that this is using a parent / child theme relationship. I want the JSON to live in the parent theme and then for the child theme to read that JSON and add it to the admin.

I’ve tried adding a folder in my parent theme “acf-json-defaults”, and this code to my functions.php.

function my_acf_json_load_point( $paths ) {
    
    // remove original path (optional)
    unset($paths[0]);
    
    // append path
    $paths[] = get_template_directory_uri() . '/acf-json-defaults';
    
    // return
    return $paths;
    
}
add_filter('acf/settings/load_json', 'my_acf_json_load_point');

But it only seems to work if I put the “acf-json-defaults” folder in the child theme. Even then, when I save the field in admin, it creates a new JSON file with the same key in the “acf-json” folder.

Does that make sense??