Change User Select Text

• bhargavy

• July 22, 2015 at 2:09 pm

Currently,

The Users list shows a list like Username (First Last Name)

How can I change it to Username (First Last Name – User Custom Field).
Also How can I search for user custom data in the fancy search select.

• John Huebner

• July 25, 2015 at 11:33 pm

In ACF5 there is a new filter in the user field that can be used to alter what is displayed, which is not documented. acf/fields/user/result.

You can see them at line 304 of /fields/user.php

// filters
$result = apply_filters("acf/fields/user/result", 			$result, $user, $field, $post_id);
$result = apply_filters("acf/fields/user/result/name={$field['_name']}", $result, $user, $field, $post_id);
$result = apply_filters("acf/fields/user/result/key={$field['key']}", $result, $user, $field, $post_id);

$result => value to be displayed ie, user name
$user => the user object
$field => the field object
$post_id => the current post id

add_fitler('', 'change_user_display', 10, 4);
function change_user_display($result, $user, $field, $post_id) {
  // change $result to what you want displayed
  return $result;
}