Reply To: Adding additional layout to flexible_content field in child theme

• John Huebner

• January 29, 2016 at 12:40 pm

I did some testing, not sure if this will help you but it’s what I came up with. The only problem I can see is if you have additional field in the group and this would put your flex field at the end of the group.

<?php 
  add_action('init', 'add_a_layout', 20);
  function add_a_layout() {
    //echo 'here'; die;
    $layout = array (
      'key' => '56aab6d4e6272XXX',
      'name' => 'layout_2',
      'label' => 'layout 2',
      'display' => 'block',
      'sub_fields' => array (
        array (
          'key' => 'field_56aab6e3cba39XX',
          'label' => 'test field 2',
          'name' => 'test_field_2',
          'type' => 'text',
          'instructions' => '',
          'required' => 0,
          'conditional_logic' => 0,
          'wrapper' => array (
            'width' => '',
            'class' => '',
            'id' => '',
          ),
          'default_value' => '',
          'placeholder' => '',
          'prepend' => '',
          'append' => '',
          'maxlength' => '',
          'readonly' => 0,
          'disabled' => 0,
        ),
      ),
      'min' => '',
      'max' => '',
    );
    $field = acf_get_field('field_56aab6cdcba38');
    $field['layouts'][] = $layout;
    acf_remove_local_field('field_56aab6cdcba38');
    acf_add_local_field($field);
  }
?>