Reply To: pre populated repeater field

• John Huebner

• January 10, 2016 at 8:18 am

Can you pre-populate a repeater field, yes.

You can use an acf/load_value filter. http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acfload_value/

function my_acf_load_value($value, $post_id, $field) {
  if ($value !== NULL) {
    // if the value is exactly NULL it means
    // the field has never been updated
    // we don't want to change fields that have already been editied
    return $value;
  }
  // set the new field value
  $value = array(
    // add a nested array for each row
    array(
      // add an array item for each sub field
      'field_name_1' => 'Value for Field 1',
      'field_name_2' => 'Value for Field 2'
    )
  );
  return $value;
}

The second part of the question, can you prevent the rows of the repeater from being reordered or edited? As far as I know this can’t be done.