Reply To: Having trouble adding ACF field to admin columns

• James

• October 4, 2016 at 3:23 pm

Hi @brotsky_pixie

The error I meant was the $column_name variable you used instead of $column and the elseif logic instead of else. If your custom post type is “post_staff”, then you should be able to do it like this:

function my_page_columns($columns)
{
    $columns = array(
        'cb'         => '<input type="checkbox" />',
        'title'     => 'Last Name',
        'first'     => 'First Name',
        'date'        =>    'Date',
    );
    return $columns;
}

function my_custom_columns($column)
{
    global $post;
    
    if ($column == 'first') {
        echo get_field( "first_name", $post->ID );
    }
    else {
         echo '';
    }
}

add_action("manage_post_staff_posts_custom_column", "my_custom_columns");
add_filter("manage_post_staff_posts_columns", "my_page_columns");

I said it’s related to WordPress because this code:

echo get_field( "first_name", $post->ID ); should show the correct value. The only issue is how you show it.

Also, could you please set WP_DEBUG to true to see any error messages on the page? Please take a look at this page to learn how to set it: https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress.

I hope this makes sense 🙂