acf_form() on the front end

• Dave Navarro, Jr.

• February 3, 2016 at 11:16 pm

I would like to see an “acf_front_end_forms() function that would do all of the necessary setup and hooks for calling acf_form() on the front end.

And/Or provide some kind of settings option that enables front end forms site wide.

I think there is enough of a demand for it.

Thanks!

• arcanepsyche

• February 5, 2016 at 3:58 am

+1. Never thought of this, but it would be great to have.

• John Huebner

• April 7, 2016 at 8:16 am

WordPress fires the get_header action before getting the header file, so you can enable acf forms on the entire site by doing something like this.

add_action('get_header', 'site_wide_acf_forms');
function site_wide_acf_forms() {
  acf_form_head();
}

You could add checks to only call acf_form_head() on certain templates or other conditions.

As far as calling acf_form() in the templates where you want the to show, I don’t think there’s anything that ACF can to about that. There aren’t any hooks build into WP that fire in the template again until you get to get_footer();