Reply To: Disable Layout from Showing in Template

• John Huebner

• August 19, 2017 at 1:51 am

I have done this for layouts based on a post type, not sure if this will help you at all, and you’d need to work out how to do it for a template

// the key is the field key for the flex field
// the priority is set exceedingly high to ensure it runs last
add_filter('acf/load_field/key=field_5808cd92035a5', 'remove_layouts', 99);

function remove_layouts($field) {
  if (!is_admin()) {
    // not on front end
    return $field;
  }
  // this is the part I'm not too sure about
  // you need to check to see if it's where you want to remove the layout
  // then
  if (!$condition) {
    return $field;
  }
  
  // move current layouts into a var
  $layouts = $field['layouts'];

  // clear layouts
  $field['lahyouts'] = array();
  
  // list of layouts you don't want to include
  $remove = array('layout_1', 'layout_2', 'etc...');

  foreach ($layouts as $layout) {
    // check
    if (!in_array($layout['name'], $remove)) {
      // keep this layout
      $field['layouts'] = $layout;
    }
  } // end foreach
  return $field;
} // end function

I don’t know if it’s possible, but it may be, to add a custom setting to for flex fields for active and then check all flex fields when loading https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/adding-custom-settings-fields/