Custom Field and Attachments

• vbkun

• July 20, 2014 at 2:50 pm

Custom Fields for attachments just show up in ‘add media’ after the full page is reloaded.

For example:

1- Click add media
2- Upload attachment -> no custom field.
3- Refresh full page
4- Click add media
5- Previously uploaded attachment have the custom field now.

Any clues to what might cause this or how to solve it?

WP 3.9.1 + ACF 4.3.8

• vbkun

• July 20, 2014 at 5:46 pm

I did some testing with the plugin files and aparently its this condition in ‘everything_fields.php’ controller the culprit:

if( !empty($screen))
{
    return $form_fields;
} 

Removing it would solve the show fields problem on upload media but it would cause them to be duplicated in attachment edit page, so I guessed that was the reason for the condition.

Changing it to:

if( !empty($screen) && $screen->id == 'attachment' )
{
   return $form_fields;
} 

Seems to have done the trick, testing a lot and so far no more of that problem.

I’m just not sure how good/bad this solution is since i can’t even get how the get_current_screen function works or how to debug a plugin’ properly.