Errors in doc for format_value filter

• Djules

• September 12, 2014 at 6:45 pm

Regarding the doc for ‘acf/format_value’ filter, there is a wrong pasted text from the filter ‘acf/load_value’ I reckon.

For the ‘acf/format_value’ filter, I didn’t find more than two ways in the code to hook into it :

‘acf/format_value’
‘acf/format_value/type={$field_type}’

It could be handy to have the 4 ways as well for the format_value filter…

• Elliot

• September 18, 2014 at 4:30 pm

Hi @Djules

Thanks mate. I’ve just updated the docs and will consider adding in the 2 other ways to hook. I intended this filter to only be used for field types, not specific fields (because you could do this with load_field, or even just in the theme file)

• Djules

• September 18, 2014 at 6:41 pm

Is the filter acf/load_field triggered when retrieving the value on admin ?

All I want was format the value of a field on the frontend (i.e. truncate its content after 20 words), but obviously not in the admin.

• Elliot

• September 30, 2014 at 9:19 am

Hi @Djules

Yep, acf/load_value is called everywhere a value is loaded (back and front end), the acf/format_value is only called on the front end