Reply To: Hide a specific field frontend

• Jeff

• May 12, 2017 at 5:23 am

Aziz,

Here is an option for your second question.

I use the following code to disable a field if a user doesn’t need to see it. You make your logic use any of the WordPress functions to determine when are where to see it.

add_filter('acf/prepare_field/name=record_number', 'disable_acf_prepare_field');

function disable_acf_prepare_field( $field ) {
  		
        // Does the user have an Office role?
        $user = wp_get_current_user();
               if ( in_array( 'office', (array) $user->roles ) ) {
	              $usergroup = 'office';
               }

	switch($field['_name']) {	
		// Which field are we looking for?	
		case 'record_number':
                   if ($usergroup == 'office' {
			      // Set the CLASS of the field to use css to hide
			      $field['wrapper']['class'] = 'hide';
                   }
		    break;
		default:
                    break;
          	
	}
}

return $field;

}

Then at the top of my php I include the following css style. Can be either added to the page template or some other theme css that is used for the page/post/post-type.

<style>

	.hideme {
		
		display: none;
	}

</style>

Hope this helps.

Jeff