If field group is not active, hide field group on front-end

• kensley.lewis

• February 13, 2019 at 1:02 am

I created a field group for a specific page, which is working great. But in the event that I want to deactivate it, I see there is an option in Custom Fields -> Field Group -> Settings, called Active. When I click that to be No, how can make that process hide my field group from being displayed on the front-end page?

What would be a good coding process?

• creativedirection

• February 13, 2019 at 1:16 am

Might be missing something, but surely just an if statement would do the job?

if(get_field('active')) {
   // do something
}

• John Huebner

• February 14, 2019 at 4:50 am

ACF does not check a field group to see if it’s active when you use get_field() and other field functions. You would need to check this yourself by getting the field group

$group = acf_get_field_group('group_5c1d039ed4066'); // your field group key
if ($group['active']) {
  // code here for showing fields in the group
}