Is acf_register_block_type using the wrong/a different hook now?

• Mark Howells-Mead

• March 21, 2020 at 2:23 am

If I use acf_register_block_type on the acf/init hook, as per https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf_register_block_type/, the block doesn’t render in the frontend. If I use the init hook, it works. This appears to be a new problem, as my code was working fine in December.

• katie

• April 6, 2020 at 11:29 am

I’m using WordPress 5.4, ACF 5.8.9.

I find that render_template and adding a template file doesn’t render, yet using render_callback and adding callback in functions.php (or referencing via functions.php) does.

• Mark Howells-Mead

• August 21, 2020 at 11:29 pm

This appears to have been resolved in a subsequent update, as both render_callback and render_template work on the acf/init hook using WordPress 5.5 and ACF Pro 5.9.