Load ACF Pro from inside a plugin

• Dedalos-01

• December 24, 2014 at 12:03 am

Hello, I’m trying to get working ACF pro from inside a custom plugin I made for setting up a theme.

It works without problems loading the ACF Pro from functions.php, as you describe here: http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/including-acf-in-a-plugin-theme/. For executing from my custom plugin I updated the paths, and I can see that the php files of ACF Pro are being loaded (if I echo something I can see it). But actually it’s like acf pro was not being loaded because I get the typical error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_field()

This is the code of my plugin (the plugin is working allright apart of the ACF integration) :

<?php  
/* 
Plugin Name: -- CGS Theme Functionality --
Plugin URI: http://
Version: 1.0
Author: Roy
Description: This plugin implent all functionlaities 
*/

//////// Register Custom Post Type and Taxonomies
require_once('inc/cpt-taxonomies.php');

//////// Functions for setting-up the theme
require_once('inc/theme-startup.php');

//////// Load ACF-Pro and meta-fields
require_once('acf/acf-include.php');
require_once('acf/acf-meta-fields-Theme-Setings.php');
require_once('acf/acf-meta-fields-Tiles-Setings.php');

//////// Run on activation
function to_do_on_activation() {

    cgs_create_page();
    set_static_front_page();
    cptui_register_my_cpt_frontiles();
    cptui_register_my_taxes_tiles_categories();
    insert_term();
    cgs_create_tiles();
    cgs_create_page();
    set_static_front_page();
    updateTheme('Creative_Grid');
}

register_activation_hook( __FILE__, 'to_do_on_activation' );

?>

and this is the code in acf-include.php:

<?php 
// INCLUDES ACF ///////////////////////
// ACF plugin and ACF meta-fields-export
// 1. customize ACF path

  add_filter('acf/settings/path', 'my_acf_settings_path');
 
  function my_acf_settings_path( $path ) {
 
    // update path
    $path = plugins_url( '/acf-pro/', __FILE__ );

    // $path = get_stylesheet_directory() . '/acf-pro/';
    
    // return
      return $path;
    
  }
// 2. customize ACF dir
  add_filter('acf/settings/dir', 'my_acf_settings_dir');
 
  function my_acf_settings_dir( $dir ) {
 
    // update path
    $dir = plugins_url( '/acf-pro/', __FILE__ );
    
    // return
      return $dir;
    
  }
// 3. Hide ACF field group menu item
  add_filter('acf/settings/show_admin', '__return_false');
// 4. Include ACF
  require_once('/acf-pro/acf.php');
?>

Would be great if someone could help to understand what I’m doing wrong.

Thanks

• Dedalos-01

• December 25, 2014 at 5:35 am

bump!, some help with this would be great 🙂

• B1gJ4k3

• February 19, 2015 at 7:04 am

Did you ever figure this out? I’m currently struggling with the same thing…

• scc

• March 5, 2015 at 7:06 am

If you haven’t already figured this out try using dirname(__FILE__) instead of only __FILE__ when using plugins_url()

so instead of this:
plugins_url( '/acf-pro/', __FILE__ )

Try this:
plugins_url( '/acf-pro/', dirname(__FILE__) )

• scc

• March 5, 2015 at 7:24 am

Also might try changing:

require_once('/acf-pro/acf.php');

to:
require_once( plugin_dir_path( dirname(__FILE__) ) . 'acf-pro/acf.php' );