Hi,
I’ve sent a ticket to support but thought I’d try on here.
Does anyone know if it’s possible to get_field() outside block?
So you can do a unique get_posts(). Then you can parse_blocks().
This will give you an array of block id’s but doesn’t allow you to get_field() still.
Was hoping I can get_field( ‘the_field’, ‘block_id’ ), but it didn’t work, so I cannot see any other way of getting block fields without being inside the block.
Hope that makes sense.
Thanks
Hi, I think that parsing blocks is the only way as the field values are not stored in the database but within the post content.
Look at this:
<!-- wp:acf/overview {"id":"block_5c582992decfd","data":{"my-overview-content":{"my-overview-content-lead":"Here we've got our report overview with all these fancy links."},"my-overview-background":{"my-overview-background-image":""}},"name":"acf/overview","mode":"preview","className":"is-style-default"} /-->
Maybe you can write a nice & useful function get_block_field() and share here. 🙂
I did a quick blog post about that last week, as I needed a quick way to retrieve any block data.
Check it out if you like
Cheers
Alex
Nice, I did something similar in the end as it was the only way. However, I’d urge core to allow/introduce the get_field('field', 'block_id') method as it makes so much sense and works well with everything else.
@portalzine nice example. Inspired by your example I created this utility class for getting a specific block using block_id and post_id – might be useful for others.
https://gist.github.com/jenssogaard/54a1927ecf51c3238bd3eff1dac73114
@jenssogaard Well done! Thank you!
Following your lead I added recursion to easily access nested blocks.
https://gitlab.com/micqey/acf-block-helper/-/blob/master/acf-block-helper.php
@micqey Thanks for the code – are you able to give an example of use?
These solutions won’t work anymore since ACF has removed the id attribute from the block comment.
See https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/whats-new-with-acf-blocks-in-acf-6/#block-id
