acf_add_local_field_grouop() not working from within plugin

• brian1037

• July 13, 2018 at 6:57 am

I have a snippet that works when it’s used in a theme, but not when it’s used in a plugin.

https://pastebin.com/yt6GuskZ

All of the fields correctly appear on my options page and work fine, except that the seamless mode doesn’t work (it’s the normal meta box). But the big problem is that this field group appears everywhere in the wp-admin… on posts, all my custom post types, etc. Basically the fields work but the style and location don’t work.

• John Huebner

• July 13, 2018 at 8:11 am

When doing this type of thing in a plugin is should be done inside an action.

For example:

add_action('acf/init', 'init_my_acf');
function init_my_acf() {
  acf_add_options_sub_page('txt Importer');
  acf_add_local_field_group(...);
}