Reply To: Default Image option

• John Huebner

• April 8, 2016 at 8:00 am

I never gave this much thought, although I do the same thing the same thing every time I need to have a default image. I always need to create custom code in the template to see if there’s an image and then do the default stuff.

Just did some testing and I can set a default image using a filter like this

 
  add_filter('acf/load_field/name=image', 'set_default_image');
  function set_default_image($field) {
    $field['default_value'] = 258;
    return $field;
  }
  

Then I tried this, this code will add a default setting to every image field when you create it, it’s just a text field, I’ve just started playing with adding additional settings to ACF fields so I don’t know what else is possible.

 
  add_action('acf/render_field_settings/type=image', 'add_default_value_to_image_field', 20);
  function add_default_value_to_image_field($field) {
    acf_render_field_setting( $field, array(
      'label'      => __('Default Image ID','acf'),
      'instructions'  => __('Appears when creating a new post','acf'),
      'type'      => 'text',
      'name'      => 'default_value',
    ));
  }