Handle acf-json outside of the theme

• stueynet

• June 2, 2015 at 10:48 pm

I am looking for a consistent way to handle the acf-json local files outside of theme and within a plugin.

add_filter('acf/settings/save_json', 'my_acf_json_save_point');
 
function my_acf_json_save_point( $path ) {
    
    // update path
    $path = get_stylesheet_directory() . '/my-custom-folder';
    
    
    // return
    return $path;
    
}

How do we reproduce this in a plugin and deal with dependencies / priority so that it loads properly? I would also suggest the documentation (http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/local-json/) be updated to reflect the strong movement towards moving functionality out of the theme.

Any help would be appreciated!

• stueynet

• June 2, 2015 at 11:12 pm

Here is the answer

<?php
add_filter('acf/settings/save_json', 'my_acf_json_save_point');

function my_acf_json_save_point( $path ) {

	// update path
	$path = dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/acf-json';

	// return
	return $path;

}

add_filter('acf/settings/load_json', 'my_acf_json_load_point');

function my_acf_json_load_point( $paths ) {

	// remove original path (optional)
	unset($paths[0]);

	// append path
	$paths[] = dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/acf-json';

	// return
	return $paths;

}

• John Huebner

• July 31, 2015 at 9:34 am

The problem with setting the save point to somewhere in you plugin is that there can only be one save point. So if you override it your plugin then all saves will go to your plugin folder, unless that’s what you’re aiming for. However, as another developer that uses ACF I wouldn’t be to happy about a plugin changing the save point, just saying.

• surferking

• November 14, 2017 at 12:48 pm

I’d prefer to see the /acf-json/ directory and files located one level up in the /wp-content/ root.

Perhaps still also looking in the /theme-name/ directory as a secondary lookup if not found in /wp-content/ to preserve backward compatibility.

This would be in-keeping with other plugins that do this, like:

WP-CFM:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-cfm/
Saves in > /wp-content/config/

Custom Global Variables:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-global-variables/
Saves in > /wp-content/custom-global-variables/