How to get all ACF groups or field for specific post type

• eddr

• July 19, 2016 at 11:24 am

Hi

I’d like to know how do you get all the acf groups or acf fields for specific post type. I don’t mean for specific post, but post type.

The same as done in a post edit screen

Thanks

• John Huebner

• July 19, 2016 at 9:48 pm

Try

$groups = acf_get_field_groups(array('post_type' => 'your-post-type'));

That will get the groups, I think. You then need to loop through the groups and use the group key to get the fields in each group using

$fields = acf_get_fields($group_key);

• eddr

• August 3, 2016 at 1:37 am

Thanks
Could be nice if you would provide a function that queries it all, no?

• John Huebner

• August 3, 2016 at 5:53 am

I didn’t build it and the functions are those used by ACF. I just know they exist from digging around in ACF and building plugins that use ACF.

• tnchuntic

• March 27, 2018 at 2:41 pm

This code is not working, I’ve tried it and it’s returning an empty array. I’ve trace the code and found out that the filter code always returns false when using outside of ACF.

Function
$groups = acf_get_field_groups(array('post_type' => 'your-post-type'));

Filter code

function acf_match_location_rule( $rule, $screen ) {
	
	// vars
	$result = false;
	
	
	// filter
	$result = apply_filters( "acf/location/rule_match/{$rule['param']}", $result, $rule, $screen );
	$result = apply_filters( "acf/location/rule_match", $result, $rule, $screen );
	
	
	// return
	return $result;
	
}

Hope someone can help further explore find a solution for this 🙂

• thebiglechowski

• July 27, 2018 at 5:03 pm

posted this on another thread but might also be what you’re looking for

function get_acf_fields_post_type( $post_type )
  {
      global $wpdb;

      $sql = "SELECT p.ID, p.post_title, p.post_name, pm.meta_value as rule
              FROM $wpdb->posts p 
              LEFT JOIN $wpdb->postmeta pm 
              ON ( p.ID = pm.post_id AND pm.meta_key = 'rule' ) 
              WHERE p.post_type = 'acf'";

      $result = $wpdb->get_results($sql);

      $groups = array();

      foreach($result as $row){

        $rule = unserialize($row->rule);

        if( $rule['param'] == 'post_type' && $rule['operator'] == '==' && $rule['value'] == $post_type )
        { 
          $groups[$row->ID] = array('title'=>$row->post_title,'name'=>$row->post_name);
        }

      }

      foreach($groups as $post_id => $data)
      {   
          $fsql = "SELECT * FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE post_id = '$post_id' AND meta_key LIKE 'field_%';";

          $fields = $wpdb->get_results($fsql);

          $field_array = array();
          foreach($fields as $field)
          {
            $f = unserialize($field->meta_value);
            $field_array[$field->meta_key] = $f; 
          }
          $groups[$post_id]['fields'] = $field_array;
      }

      return $groups;

  }

• garudha

• January 11, 2019 at 3:05 am

FYI, The original code (below) seems to be working for me now (ACF PRO v5.7.9)

$groups = acf_get_field_groups(array('post_type' => 'your-post-type'));