Admin-only visibility on fields

• brian1037

• February 11, 2015 at 10:45 am

Sometimes I add ACF fields for read-only use, like to show the number of views a post has. It would be useful to have the option of making fields visible only to administrators, or even certain accounts.

Thanks.

• ratatat

• February 11, 2015 at 10:11 pm

hi @brian1037

to show the number of views a post has >> that’s completely out of the scope of the ACF, it’s not even connected with the plugin. Probably there are actually other WordPress plugins that can do that.

And you can make the fields visible only to administrators, check this one out:
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/custom-location-rules/

Cheers

• brian1037

• February 12, 2015 at 3:18 am

Thanks for the link, but what I meant was that a field would only be visible to users logged in as administrators, not that a field would appear on the administrator profile page.

I know that ACF doesn’t do view counting ;). It was a quick example to illustrate a use for an admin-only visibility field.

• jsilver

• June 12, 2015 at 8:03 am

I’m planning on adding this functionality to my Validated Field add-on (or a pro version of it) in the near future.

Thanks!

Justin

• Jonathan

• June 16, 2015 at 2:05 am

Hi Brian,

There are location rules in ACF with which you can make sure a group of fields are only visibly to an administrator.

Personally I think that if one has time this is a perfect situation to code your own super simple Meta box. But you can also use a message field (which is obviously just read only) and modify it’s output to show your view count as plain text.