Reply To: What's the best way to get the fields in a group in order, for display?

• techliminal

• August 30, 2016 at 10:57 am

Well, after posting (isn’t it how this always works?) I figured out the brute force way to do it. It would be great if there were a function for this.

// get the list of fields in order.
	
$args = array(
	'post_type' => 'acf-field',
	'post_parent' => $group_id, // field group 
	'posts_per_page' => 100,
	'orderby' => 'menu_order',
	'order' => 'ASC'
);
	
$all_fields = new WP_Query($args);
	
$fieldnames = array();

if ($all_fields->have_posts()){
	foreach($all_fields->posts as $f){
		$fieldnames[] = $f->post_excerpt;
	}
}
		
// get the fields

$fields = get_field_objects();

if( $fields )
{

	foreach($fieldnames as $fn){
		
		if (isset($fields[$fn])){
			$field =  $fields[$fn];
			if ($field['value'] == '') continue;
			/* do stuff */
		}
	}
}