Wire up register_field_group in a plugin rather than theme?

• randy

• July 24, 2013 at 2:09 am

I prefer to put my custom metadata in plugins rather than themes, but I can’t figure out what hook to use to get register_field_group to fire appropriately. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

• wells5609

• July 24, 2013 at 2:33 am

@randy

Call register_field_group on “init”

• randy

• July 24, 2013 at 5:11 am

Thanks. Pretty sure I tried that yesterday, but must have had something else wrong.

• wells5609

• July 24, 2013 at 10:29 am

You can also hook into “acf/register_fields”, although I’m not sure of the benefits or downsides to either approach.

• Elliot

• July 24, 2013 at 3:11 pm

Hi @randy

You can hook into the plugins_loaded action. This will ensure that ACF is active, but is before the init action