Reply To: Automatically register a field group when adding a category

• John Huebner

• April 21, 2016 at 10:14 am

This is an old topic and you’ve probably moved on but for anyone that’s looking for the same type of thing.

The first thing I ask is what will having a different field group for each category give that that having the same field group on all categories won’t.

If you still want to do this, you would not create a new field group every time a new category is created, you would create some custom php code that would run and create a field group and fields for each category that exists.

I’d start by exporting a field group that’s attached to a specific category first and use this for an example. Then I would add an function that runs on WP init

add_action('init', 'add_category_field_groups');
function add_category_field_groups() {
  // use get_terms to get a list of categories
  // https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_terms/
  // loop through the categories and create a field group
  // I would set the group key to something like 
  // "group_termid000{$term->term_id}"
  // see https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/register-fields-via-php/
}

Hope that helps someone