Add Flexible Content and fields to post

• djcottrell

• October 19, 2017 at 7:37 am

I am setting up default posts when my theme is installed. It creates the post and returns the id but I have been unsuccessful in inserting the ACF Flexible Content. They do not have any example code or information on inserting Flexible Content in their documentation. I have created the code below but have been unsuccessful in my attempts.

	$config=array(
		array(
			"type" => "menu",
			"subfields" => array(
				'field_589ad3b3b6ccf'=>'menu', // wrapper_class
				'field_589ad3b3b6cce'=>'menu', // wrapper_id
				'field_589ad402b6cd1'=>'7', // menu_type
				'field_59876063512cb'=>'left', // menu_alignment
				'field_589ad3dcb6cd0'=>'2', // menu_selection
				'field_589ad3b3b6ccd'=>'1' // menu_width
			) 
		)
	);
	foreach($config as $field){
		// There is no documentation on how to add the element to the initial field
                // I need to add menu to field_589ad3b3b6ccd

		foreach ($field['subfields'] as $sub){
			// I have tried
			add_row( 'field_589ad3b3b6ccd', $sub, $headerID );
			// I have tried
			add_sub_row( 'field_589ad3b3b6ccd', $sub, $headerID );
		}
	}

• gummi

• October 28, 2017 at 5:29 pm

Documentation should be here:

https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/add_sub_row/

So, you need to know your flex-content fields’ field name too.

For example, if your field_name is ‘page_blocks’, you’d do something like:

foreach ($config as $index => $field) {
    foreach ($field['subfields'] as $key => $value) {
        add_sub_row(array('page_blocks', $index, $key), $value);
    }
}

p.s i haven’t tested yet.

Cheers