While Kevin’s suggestion will get done what you want to do, I find it a much better alternative to check fields in the template. For example, I would never add something like
<span><?php the_field('my-field'); ?></span>
without checking to see if it has a value first
<?php
if (get_field('my-field')) {
?><span><?php the_field('my-field'); ?></span><?php
}
?>
Since I’m already checking the value I would alter my check to:
<?php
$value = get_field('my-field');
if (!$value) {
$value = 'my default value';
}
?><span><?php echo $value; ?></span>
This makes in unnecessary for me to retroactively add the field to the database.
