How to display Fields as a Column in All Posts view?

• The Portland Company

• May 25, 2015 at 5:36 am

I’m attempting to develop a full blown Project Management utility using the Advanced Custom Fields Plugin.

I’ve used the CPT UI Plugin to create a CPT called “Projects” and another called “Tasks”.

Then I used ACF to create Custom Fields and ensured they only appear on those Post Types. One of the fields on Tasks is called “Project” and it’s a Post Object field type. It allows the user to select from a list of Custom Posts in the “Projects” CPT I created.

The problem is that when you’re on the All Tasks page I need there to be a column that displays the value they selected from that Projects Post Object field. But I don’t see any option to achieve this.

Any permanent solutions are welcome! (Not looking for a hack, but willing to write custom code to extend ACF).

Thanks!

• John Huebner

• June 3, 2015 at 9:28 am

Are you talking about adding a column to /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=tasks?

This is done using a WP filter. There is a decent post about doing this here: http://code.tutsplus.com/articles/add-a-custom-column-in-posts-and-custom-post-types-admin-screen–wp-24934

You can find the WP docs here in the codex:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/manage_$post_type_posts_columns

https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/manage_$post_type_posts_columns

• zahardev

• September 9, 2021 at 7:52 am

If someone still needs this functionality I’ve made a completely free and fully ACF-compatible plugin for showing custom fields in post overview pages – Posts Columns Manager (PCM). Hope it will help people to easily manage their custom columns without any programming. Here it is – https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-columns-manager/