Problem with Creating New Menus?

• Schalk Venter

• June 23, 2015 at 12:11 am

I purchased the ACF Options Add-On earlier today. However, I’m a bit stuck with creating new menus and sub-menus.

I followed the Vimeo video under ‘Overview’ on ‘The Options Page’. Specifically by inserting the following code in the functions.php:

if( function_exists('acf_add_options_page') ) {
	
	acf_add_options_page(array(
		'page_title' 	=> 'Theme General Settings',
		'menu_title'	=> 'Theme Settings',
		'menu_slug' 	=> 'theme-general-settings',
		'capability'	=> 'edit_posts',
		'redirect'		=> false
	));
	
	acf_add_options_sub_page(array(
		'page_title' 	=> 'Theme Header Settings',
		'menu_title'	=> 'Header',
		'parent_slug'	=> 'theme-general-settings',
	));
	
	acf_add_options_sub_page(array(
		'page_title' 	=> 'Theme Footer Settings',
		'menu_title'	=> 'Footer',
		'parent_slug'	=> 'theme-general-settings',
	));
	
}

This code doesn’t appear to be doing anything, so I removed the IF statement and received a PHP error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function acf_add_options_page()

Not sure what I’m doing wrong?

• John Huebner

• June 23, 2015 at 2:35 am

Try setting up an action to run your code, this is usually how I add them.

add_action('init', 'add_my_options_pages');
function add_my_options_pages() {
    // put your code from above in this function
}

• Schalk Venter

• June 23, 2015 at 6:16 pm

Hi John.

Thanks for the speedy reply once again!

I’ve tried running it through an action/function as recommended above. However, the results still seem to be the same (See screenshot).

I’m not sure how to proceed?

Just as an aside, I’m running it on a XAMP local test server, I assume this wouldn’t have any effect on the outcome?

Thanks!
Schalk

• John Huebner

• June 23, 2015 at 9:09 pm

okay, looking back over this you said add on, so that’s acf4. The options pages are a bit different in acf4. You need to use the function acf_add_options_sub_page

acf_add_options_page did not exist in V4. I can’t seem to locate the documentation related specifically to 4 at the moment.

• Schalk Venter

• June 24, 2015 at 5:56 pm

Thanks John.