Can I attach ACF validation to a non-ACF field?

• Mattaton

• March 17, 2015 at 1:50 am

I have a post parent metabox and I need to make sure that the user chooses a parent for this post type. I have ACF fields all over the place and I like the way ACF checks for required fields and the feedback it gives. Can I add in a metabox that isn’t created by ACF to the validation process and have it flagged the same way as ACF fields?

Thanks!
Matt

• James

• April 8, 2016 at 11:44 pm

Hi @mattaton,

Thanks for the post.

Unfortunately it is not possible to target non-acf fields from within the acf/validate_value filter.