Reply To: Advanced customs fields in functions.php

• John Huebner

• January 23, 2017 at 3:55 am

If you have ACF working when installed in the theme then more than likely you are trying to create your field group before ACF has loaded. In other words

if( function_exists('acf_add_local_field_group') ):

is false.

Put the code that creates field groups into an init action

add_action('init', 'my_function_to_add_field_groups');
function my_function_to_add_field_groups() {
  // add field groups here
}