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

• John Huebner

• June 1, 2016 at 6:39 am

Having a field group defined in the parent theme and then adding to it in a child theme is not something there is any documentation on, or something that I’ve done. If I were going to do this I would.

1) Create a function in my parent theme that creates the needed field group.
2) Create a custom hook that will allow me to filter that field group.

something like this

// in parent theme
add_action('acf/include_fields', 'parent_theme_group');
function parent_theme_group() {
  $field_group = array(
    // definition of field group here
  );
  $field_group = apply_filters('my_custom_hook_name', $field_group);
  acf_add_local_field_group($field_group);
}

// in the child theme
add_filter('my_custom_hook_name', 'add_to_parent_theme_group');
function add_to_parent_theme_group($group) {
  // modify $group
  return $group;
}