Reply To: Filter for flexible content layouts

• John Huebner

• February 12, 2018 at 2:48 am

There is nothing in ACF that can do this and you have to build something yourself. This would be the equivalent of having location rules for every field.

I had the same need a few months ago, in my case I needed to show a layout only on a specific post type.

I created an acf/load_field filter https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-load_field/ for the flex field. I then checked the post type of the post. Then I looped through the layouts in the field settings and removed the ones I didn’t want to show.

The best I can offer you is the code I used to remove the layouts I did not want to show on other post types

// this is an excerpt from my load field filter
// above here I decided if the layouts should be shown
// if not then this code would run

$layouts = $field['layouts'];
$field['layouts'] = array();
foreach ($layouts as $layout) {
  if ($layout['name'] != 'product_panel' && $layout['name'] != 'product_specs_panel') {
    $field['layouts'][] = $layout;
  }
}
return $field;