Group Options (acf_render_field_wrap) is there an officiel way to do this?

• ashorlivs

• January 30, 2015 at 4:36 am

Hi,
I’m using ACF Pro 5 latest.

My field group needs a custom option (for the whole group, not for its fields), like this:

So I played around the code and found I only had to had a new group to wp-content/plugins/advanced-custom-fields-pro/admin/views/field-group-options.php and add the default value into wp-content/plugins/advanced-custom-fields-pro/api/api-field-group.php:

// grid width
acf_render_field_wrap(array(
	'label'			=> __('Largeur du groupe','acf'),
	'instructions'	=> __('Largeur du template comportant cette grille de contenus','acf'),
	'type'			=> 'number',
	'name'			=> 'grid_width',
	'prefix'		=> 'acf_field_group',
	'append'		=> 'px',
	'value'			=> $field_group['grid_width'],
), 'tr');

and

function acf_get_valid_field_group( $field_group = false ) {
	
	// parse in defaults
	$field_group = acf_parse_args( $field_group, array(
		'ID'					=> 0,
		// (...)
		'hide_on_screen'		=> array(),
		'grid_width'			=> 590,
	));

// (...)

Of course since I am editing ACF’s core files, my custom group options will go away at the next upgrade of the plugin.

So, is there an official way to do this?

I couldn’t find any reference to acf_render_field_wrap().

Thanks for reading!
Cookies for answering 🙂

• endcore

• May 19, 2015 at 10:19 pm

Hey,

did you find a solution for it? I have the same issue.

Greetings

• ashorlivs

• May 20, 2015 at 12:00 am

Hi @endcore, unfortunately I got no reply from the Support so I ended up with disabling auto-update of the plugin (by removing the key used for the pro version) and copy/pasting my custom edits each time a new version is out.

Obviously this is not a professional way to maintain a site, so I hope this featured will be official soon.

Don’t forget to reply to this topic if you find a way!

• Elliot

• May 22, 2015 at 9:35 am

Hi guys

Thanks for the topic and ideas.

I’ve just added in a new action (to the next version not yet released 5.2.6):
‘acf/render_field_group_settings’

You will be able to use it like this:

add_action('acf/render_field_group_settings', 'my_function', 10, 1);

function my_function( $field_group ) {

}

• endcore

• June 3, 2015 at 8:05 pm

<3

• webbudesign

• January 12, 2019 at 2:22 am

Why don’t you add this action to the documentation? Hard to find it with the google search.

• saminton

• November 7, 2020 at 11:26 pm

I can’t get this to work. Using it like so in my functions.php file. When I add a print_r($field_group) It appears below the field settings. So I guess it’s being called too late to be taken into account.

add_action('acf/render_field_group_settings', 'my_function', 10, 1);
function my_function( $field_group ) {
    
    $field_group['style'] = 'seemless';
    $field_group['menu_order'] = 1;
    $field_group['hide_on_screen'] = array('the_content');
    
    return $field_group;
}

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