Get an ACF User Field for logged in user in the "Default Value" of another Field

• spittingllama

• March 23, 2022 at 12:24 pm

Hi,

I am looking to output the content from an ACF user field. For the Current Users “Company Name”.

I want this to be the default value of an ACF field when they add a new post.

The output I have is <?php the_field( ‘company_name’, $user_id_prefixed ); ?> but this just brings back this when creating a post and not the field text.

I need this to display the output in the WordPress backend.

Is this possible?

• John Huebner

• March 24, 2022 at 12:31 pm

See acf/prepare_field. Using this filter you can set the default value of a field from the field on the user page.

add_filter('acf/prepare_field/name=your_field_name', 'default_user_company', 20);
function default_user_company($field) {
  $field['defualt_value'] = get_field('company_name', 'user_'.get_current_user_id());
  return $field;
}