Break out Flexible Content Repeater to reduce memory

• ch4rlie

• June 10, 2016 at 4:06 am

I have a flexible content system setup as a page builder like structure. However for one of the pages, one of the flexible content fields is just becoming too big because it has a repeater field in it. I was wondering if there is a way to export the content out of it and then just create a new field group and import the data.

I have a lot of data in this repeater that is nested and I would hate to spend days copying and pasting the data from these fields into the new standalone field group!

Thanks for the support – ACF PRO is the BEST!!!

• James

• June 10, 2016 at 11:57 am

Hi @ch4rlie

I’m afraid there’s no tool to do it yet. What you can do is to create the new field group and then use the update_field() function to fill the newly created fields. This page should give you more idea about it: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/update_field/.

Please keep in mind that you need to use the field key to update the newly created fields.

I hope this helps 🙂

• ch4rlie

• June 11, 2016 at 5:20 am

Ok thank you for the tip, I will try to write a universal function to do this, if successful will post here.

Thanks!

• pronkman

• June 14, 2016 at 12:11 am

You could try something like this (if I understand your question correctly):
https://github.com/Hube2/acf-reusable-field-group-field