Reply To: Controlling fields order and labels in acf_form

• John Huebner

• December 6, 2018 at 12:09 am

1) When using the build in WP title and content fields there isn’t any way to alter the order of them. To do this you would have to create content and title fields in ACF and then transfer the content of them to the standard fields on acf/save_post by getting the values from acf and updating the post.

add_action('acf/save_post', 'my_update_post', 20);
function my_update_post($post_id) {
  $post = array(
    'ID' => $post_id,
    'post_content' => get_field('my_alt_content_field', $post_id),
    'post_title' => get_field('my_alt_title_field', $post_id)
  );
  // remove this filter to prevent infinite loop
  remove_filter('acf/save_post', 'my_update_post', 20);
  // update post
  wp_update_post($post);
  // re-add filter
  add_action('acf/save_post', 'my_update_post', 20);
}

2) Yes, acf/prepare_field can be used to do this, your filter would look something like

add_filter('acf/prepare_field/key=field_123456', 'alter_label_on_field_a');
function alter_label_on_field_a{$field) {
  if (is_admin()) {
    // no change in admin
    return $field;
  }
  $field['label'] = 'new label for front end form';
  return $field;
}