Totally lost, can't get options page to display

• Jamie

• March 3, 2014 at 6:30 am

Where am I going wrong?

I’ve included the options page plugin into my theme. Then I go in and create a field groud, called it Options and added a couple of fields.

Then I select the rules for that and pick Options Page is equal to Options.

Then when I publish I get no errors etc.

Now where do I go? Am I right in thinking it should create a new menu item called Options? Or do I have to register that first (http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_options_page), then add the field group?

Sorry if it’s very dumb, been pulling my hair out trying to work out what to do!

• Elliot

• March 3, 2014 at 10:49 am

Hi @Jamie

By activating / including the options page, you will see a new menu item called ‘Options’ in your sidebar menu.

If you don’t see this itme, please check that you don’t have any plugins interfering with the display.

Thanks
E

• Jamie

• March 4, 2014 at 6:32 am

It’s bizarre, if I use the options page as an include, it shows in the ACF Addons page as being there, but not option menu appears – I include it along with my other fields.

define( 'ACF' , true );
include_once( get_template_directory() . '/advanced-custom-fields/acf.php' );

add_action('acf/register_fields', 'myown_custom_fields');
function myown_custom_fields() {
	include_once( get_template_directory() . '/advanced-custom-fields/acf-repeater/repeater.php');
    include_once( get_template_directory() . '/advanced-custom-fields/acf-flexible-content/flexible-content.php');
    include_once( get_template_directory() . '/advanced-custom-fields/acf-options-page/acf-options-page.php');
}

Installing it as a separate plugin, however, works fine. I don’t mind doing that, but any idea how I’d do it by bundling into my functions?

Cheers!

• Elliot

• March 6, 2014 at 9:25 am

Hi @Jamie

The options page must be included in the root of the functions.php file, not within the acf/register_fields filter, this is because the options page is not a field type.

Thanks
E

• Jamie

• March 6, 2014 at 10:10 am

Of course!! That makes complete sense, thanks elliot!