Exporting Fields from files.

• BrendanF

• October 11, 2022 at 9:28 pm

If I can’t access the WordPress backend of a website but I can access the theme files.

Is their a file in the Plugins->AdvancedCustomFields that holds all of the added CMS custom fields?

Eg, Is there a way for me to get a copy of all the fields without logging into the WordPress backend and paste them into a new install?

Reason for question.
My computers logic board recently blew up. I still have the files but I lost all the databases so I don’t have the WordPress backend.

• John Huebner

• October 12, 2022 at 9:31 am

the only way they would be available is if local json was used. this is done by adding the folder “acf-json” to the active theme. If you don’t have that file there isn’t any way to get the fields.

• BrendanF

• October 12, 2022 at 8:58 pm

So to clarify.

If in the future I was to create a folder called “acf-json” directly into my active themes folder the custom field data would then be automatically saved there?

So wp-content -> themes -> mytheme -> acf-json

• BrendanF

• October 12, 2022 at 9:45 pm

I just did that. Amazing thanks.

That solves the issue of this happening again in the future.

Wish I knew this before.

• John Huebner

• October 13, 2022 at 9:24 am

Yes, there is the documentation https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/local-json/