Whenever I add a new post category to my admin, I would like to automatically register a new field group with the same name as the category. I’m thinking I’d need to use the register_field_group function for this somehow?
Also, whenever I rename a category, I would also like to rename the matching field group so they have the same name. Can this be done?
This is an old topic and you’ve probably moved on but for anyone that’s looking for the same type of thing.
The first thing I ask is what will having a different field group for each category give that that having the same field group on all categories won’t.
If you still want to do this, you would not create a new field group every time a new category is created, you would create some custom php code that would run and create a field group and fields for each category that exists.
I’d start by exporting a field group that’s attached to a specific category first and use this for an example. Then I would add an function that runs on WP init
add_action('init', 'add_category_field_groups');
function add_category_field_groups() {
// use get_terms to get a list of categories
// https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_terms/
// loop through the categories and create a field group
// I would set the group key to something like
// "group_termid000{$term->term_id}"
// see https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/register-fields-via-php/
}
Hope that helps someone