Using ACF in a plugin using the WP Plugin boilerplate

• pixeline

• September 16, 2016 at 9:43 am

Hi!

I’m trying to adapt the instructions on how to distribute ACF (Lite) as part of a theme/plugin, but it does not seem to work.

Wanting to follow best practices, I’ve built my plugin using the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate which is organized with Classes.

The Warning messages indicate that it finds the /includes/advanced-custom-fields/acf.php file, but not its internal includes.

In the main Class load_dependencies() method:

		/**
		 * Add ACF
		 */
		define( 'ACF_LITE', true ); // hides the admin menu ACF entry.

		require_once plugin_dir_path( dirname( __FILE__ ) ) . 'includes/advanced-custom-fields/acf.php';
		require_once  plugin_dir_path( dirname( __FILE__ ) ) . 'includes/acf-fieldgroups.php';

		$this->loader = new Plugin_Class_Loader();

The filters are called in that same class define_admin_hooks() method

		$this->loader->add_filter( 'acf/settings/path', $plugin_admin, 'acf_settings_path' );
		$this->loader->add_filter( 'acf/settings/dir', $plugin_admin, 'acf_settings_dir' ); 

The Plugin construct():

 
public function __construct() {

		$this->plugin_name = 'wp-ipmstore';
		$this->version = '1.0.0';
		$this->load_dependencies();
		$this->set_locale();
		$this->define_admin_hooks();
		$this->define_public_hooks();

	} 

What am I doing wrong?

For the sake of completeness, here are the Warnings messages:

Warning: include_once(core/fields/text.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/me/Sites/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/plugin-name/includes/advanced-custom-fields/acf.php on line 393

Warning: include_once(): Failed opening 'core/fields/text.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.0.10/lib/php') in /Users/me/Sites/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/plugin-name/includes/advanced-custom-fields/acf.php on line 393

Warning: include_once(core/fields/textarea.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/me/Sites/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/plugin-name/includes/advanced-custom-fields/acf.php on line 394

Warning: include_once(): Failed opening 'core/fields/textarea.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.0.10/lib/php') in /Users/me/Sites/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/plugin-name/includes/advanced-custom-fields/acf.php on line 394

Warning: include_once(core/fields/wysiwyg.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/me/Sites/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/plugin-name/includes/advanced-custom-fields/acf.php on line 399

Warning: include_once(): Failed opening 'core/fields/wysiwyg.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.0.10/lib/php') in /Users/me/Sites/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/plugin-name/includes/advanced-custom-fields/acf.php on line 399

Warning: include_once(core/fields/true_false.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/me/Sites/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/plugin-name/includes/advanced-custom-fields/acf.php on line 406

Warning: include_once(): Failed opening 'core/fields/true_false.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.0.10/lib/php') in /Users/me/Sites/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/plugin-name/includes/advanced-custom-fields/acf.php on line 406

Warning: include_once(core/fields/taxonomy.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/me/Sites/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/plugin-name/includes/advanced-custom-fields/acf.php on line 411

Warning: include_once(): Failed opening 'core/fields/taxonomy.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.0.10/lib/php') in /Users/me/Sites/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/plugin-name/includes/advanced-custom-fields/acf.php on line 411

Warning: include_once(core/fields/user.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/me/Sites/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/plugin-name/includes/advanced-custom-fields/acf.php on line 412

Warning: include_once(): Failed opening 'core/fields/user.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.0.10/lib/php') in /Users/me/Sites/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/plugin-name/includes/advanced-custom-fields/acf.php on line 412

Warning: include_once(core/fields/date_picker/date_picker.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/me/Sites/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/plugin-name/includes/advanced-custom-fields/acf.php on line 415

Warning: include_once(): Failed opening 'core/fields/date_picker/date_picker.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.0.10/lib/php') in /Users/me/Sites/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/plugin-name/includes/advanced-custom-fields/acf.php on line 415

• Stormwind

• November 10, 2016 at 3:09 pm

You should run define_admin_hooks(), or at least the code that adds filters to update the ACF paths, before you run load_dependencies().