Hide Elements for specific user roles

• castorpollux285

• September 10, 2018 at 8:25 pm

Hello,

ist it possible to hide elements ( https://ibb.co/fRpDH9 ) only for specific user roles?

Thanks in advance!

• John Huebner

• September 10, 2018 at 10:20 pm

You could try this https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-field-setting-for-acf/

• castorpollux285

• September 11, 2018 at 7:06 pm

Thanks for your reply.

But I don’t want to hide FIELDS, I want to hide elements on the page like the editor etc. This is the option in the settings: https://ibb.co/ik8tKp

• John Huebner

• September 11, 2018 at 9:56 pm

No, that is not possible through settings. You can create a filter, there is an undocumented filter acf/get_field_group

add_filter('acf/field_group', 'my_change_field_group');
function my_change_field_group($group) {
  if ($group['key'] = 'group_your-group-key') {
    // check current user role
    // set $group['hide_on_screen'] with array of things you want to hide
    // look at an exported field group for examples of what goes here
  }
  return $group;
}

• castorpollux285

• September 11, 2018 at 9:58 pm

Ok, I will try that.

Thank you!

• oMikR0n

• September 24, 2020 at 7:55 pm

@hube2 I think that this filter stopped working in the latest version 🙁

• John Huebner

• September 24, 2020 at 9:50 pm

It depends on what you’re trying to hide on screen and what editor you’re using. If you using guberbuggutenberg then hiding the editor will not work. Not sure about other things.

• jmslbam

• October 8, 2020 at 12:07 am

@omikr0n please use “acf/get_field_group” because the code snippet uses an incorrect “acf/field_group”.

But I still can’t seem to hide the group through PHP with this filter.

Even if I’m setting the $group[‘active’] to false.

• jmslbam

• October 8, 2020 at 1:08 am

I managed to remove a group via the metabox removal code

remove_meta_box('acf-group_58638dba80441', 'your-custom-post-type-here', 'normal');

‘normal` can also be ‘side’ depending on the position.

See https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/remove-a-metabox-from-edit-page/

Is this what helps y’all?