Make text field available depending on admin or front

• Seblito

• April 4, 2022 at 4:41 am

Hey guys,

I would like to have a text field show up in admin, editable to a specific administrator but its value must be available/viewable to everyone on the front.

So, I’m using the acf_render_field_setting() function together with a filter “acf/prepare_field” (explained here).

The problem is I don’t know how to build the conditionals inside the if statement correct in order to achieve this. Can someone please help?

Currently I have this:

// Make sure to only show to administrators in admin but to everyone on the front
add_filter('acf/prepare_field', 'my_admin_only_prepare_field');

function my_admin_only_prepare_field( $field ) {
	
	// bail early if no 'admin_only' setting
	if( empty($field['admin_only']) ) return $field;
		
	// return false if is not admin (removes field)
	if( !current_user_can('administrator')) return false;

    if(!is_admin()) return $field;
		
	// return
	return $field;
}

Thanks!!

• Seblito

• April 5, 2022 at 10:06 am

Ok I solved it, kind of, by setting Show if rules to:

Current User Role is equal to Administrator AND
Post Type is equal to ‘my_custom_post_type’