Reply To: Programatically registering ACF field blocks in Gutenberg

• Hesham

• November 30, 2018 at 3:23 am

It seems that underscores in block name isn’t passing though.

So, textarea_block as a block name is not working, instead use a name without underscores, something like textareablock.

Try this:

if( function_exists('acf_register_block') ) {

  acf_register_block(array(
    'name'				=> 'textareablock',
    'key'				=> 'textarea_block',
    'title'				=> __('textarea'),
    'description'		=> __('A custom pixel block.'),
    'render_callback'	=> 'textarea_block_render_callback',
    'category'			=> 'formatting',
    'mode'              => 'edit', // 'preview',
    'icon'				=> 'admin-comments',
    'keywords'			=> array( 'flexible', 'quote' ),
  ));
}

register_field_group(array (
  'key' => 'textarea',
  'title' => 'Text Area',
  'fields' => array(
    array(
      'key' => 'textarea_title',
      'name' => 'textarea_title',
      'label' => 'Section Title',
      'instructions' => '',
      'type' => 'text',
    ),
    array(
      'key' => 'textarea_text',
      'name' => 'textarea_text',
      'label' => 'Text',
      'instructions' => '',
      'type' => 'wysiwyg',
    ),
  ),
  'location' => array (
    array (
      array (
        'param' => 'block',
        'operator' => '==',
        'value' => 'acf/textareablock'
      ),
    ),
  ),
));

P.S. I’ve added 'mode'=> 'edit' to start ACF block in edit more.