• James

• in reply to: Changing field group name does not reflect in admin
• July 21, 2019 at 2:57 am

Hi @dkuhnexpression

Is it possible that you have enabled the local JSON feature on your site?
When enabled this feature will load field groups from JSON files on your theme and not from the database.
Please take a look at this page for more info: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/local-json/

• James

• in reply to: Conditional "if (get_field())" shows empty field
• July 21, 2019 at 2:52 am

Hi @lsterling03

ACF creates field references on the database once the value has been saved and these do not exist since the data was imported to your db.
I would suggest that you pass the value of the affected field to the update_field() function as described on this page: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/update_field/

• James

• in reply to: Different footers for different pages with ACF
• July 21, 2019 at 2:42 am

Hi @marcellinomarcel1

Yes this is possible, you can create an options page to hold different sets of data for each page and since this data is global you can easily display this data conditionally on the footer of each page.
Please take a look at these resources for more info on this:
https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/options-page/
https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/get-values-from-an-options-page/

I hope this info helps. Thank you.

• James

• in reply to: add_row functions add double rows
• July 19, 2019 at 11:21 pm

Hi @mohammed_alama

Kindly share a copy of the code that you have so far so that we can be in a position to help.

Thanks.

• James

• in reply to: Make custom fields for images alt text, captions, descriptions
• July 19, 2019 at 11:19 pm

Hi @marcellinomarcel1

Yes this is possible, you can create a field group with a set of fields that you want to assign to attachments and then map them using the location rule:

Attachment == Images

• James

• in reply to: It doesn't show ACF until a post is published
• July 19, 2019 at 11:15 pm

Hi @italoborges

This feature works as expected on my end.
Could you please install the Classic Editor plugin and check if there will be different results: https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/

• James

• in reply to: Post Object Issue with Woocommerce Product Archives
• July 18, 2019 at 9:15 pm

Hi @hplwebmaster

Your code maybe resetting the global $post object, please make use of a custom foreach loop as shown in this example:

$post_objects = get_field('post_objects');

if( $post_objects ): ?>
    <ul>
    <?php foreach( $post_objects as $post_object): ?>
        <li>
            <a href="<?php echo get_permalink($post_object->ID); ?>"><?php echo get_the_title($post_object->ID); ?></a>
            <span>Post Object Custom Field: <?php the_field('field_name', $post_object->ID); ?></span>
        </li>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
    </ul>
<?php endif;

• James

• in reply to: Repeater don't show
• July 18, 2019 at 9:05 pm

Hi @tpodgro

Is it possible that you are calling this code outside the posts() loop?
If so, you will need to assign a post id as the second parameter on the have_rows() function like so:

$post_id = '123';
if( have_rows('elementalaune',$post_id) ):

				while ( have_rows('elementalaune',$post_id) ) : the_row();
					get_sub_field('image');
					get_sub_field('texte');
				endwhile;
		else :
				echo "Nothing here";
		endif;

• James

• in reply to: Javascript errors
• July 18, 2019 at 8:46 pm

Hi @dacosta

Would you mind letting us know the versions of WP and ACF that you are currently running?
A copy of the errors reported would also really help.

• James

• in reply to: API-key: Google Maps field to only show address
• July 18, 2019 at 8:39 pm

Hi @iker3085

The following APIs are required for all the map functionality to work:

• Places
• Routes
• Map

• James

• in reply to: Fields double when clicking on category post
• July 17, 2019 at 10:58 pm

Hi @benbelek

I cannot seem to reproduce this issue on my end. Please check for conflicts by deactivating all other installed plugins and switching to one of the stock WP themes. You can also use this plugin for troubleshooting: https://wordpress.org/plugins/health-check/

• James

• in reply to: Front-end form wrap each group in a div?
• July 17, 2019 at 10:51 pm

Hi @dwsww

Perhaps you could create a readonly field on each field group and use this to save a unique class name that you can use to target the field group on your page template.

• James

• in reply to: Menu Selection Field
• July 17, 2019 at 10:31 pm

Hi @kevinicscreative-com

I am thinking that creating a custom field type would be the most ideal approach on this one.
You can check out the starter-kit on this page: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/creating-a-new-field-type/

I hope this info helps.

• James

• in reply to: API-key: Google Maps field to only show address
• July 17, 2019 at 10:26 pm

Hi @iker3085

I do not think that these charges would be costly when you only use the map on the backend. Here is their pricing table:

SKU	$200 monthly credit Equivalent free usage	Monthly volume range (Price per thousand)
Static Maps	Up to 100,000 loads	$2.00
Dynamic Maps	Up to 28,000 loads	$7.00

I believe that the plugin author also has some plans of introducing open source maps on a future update where you will be able to select the type of map that you want to use.

• James

• in reply to: Trying to check for number
• July 17, 2019 at 10:16 pm

Hi @vgledhill

You can make use casting to explicitly declare a saved value into the type that you desire.
Here is an example:

<?php
 //code goes in functions.php file
function my_acf_format_value( $value, $post_id, $field ) {
	
	// cast the value returned by all text field into integers
	$value = (int)$value;
	
	
	// return
	return $value;
}

add_filter('acf/format_value/type=text', 'my_acf_format_value', 10, 3);
 
?>

I hope this info helps.

• James

• in reply to: Create new user with acf_form
• July 17, 2019 at 10:09 pm

Hi @william.alexander

Were you able to figure out the email saving issue as well?
If not, kindly share your updated code so that we can advise further.

• James

• in reply to: Image Field to a Post
• July 17, 2019 at 10:03 pm

Hi there,

You can hook into the acf/save_post hook that is called when the form is submitted and create this logic.
Please take a look at the examples on this page: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-save_post/

I hope this info helps.

• James

• in reply to: Trying to check for number
• July 16, 2019 at 10:45 pm

Hi @vgledhill

The text field will save its values as strings.
For the case of the number field, you can get the raw database value by assigning a false parameter to the get_field() like so:

$value = get_field('fieldname',false,false);

You can also use casting within the acf/format_value to ensure that the values are loaded in a particular format: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-format_value/

• James

• in reply to: user role
• July 16, 2019 at 10:35 pm

Hi @elhussini

To get the number or rows of approved entries on your repeater, you can make use of the following code:

$rows = get_field('repeater_field_name', 'user_'.{user_id}); // get all the rows
$number_of_user_rows = count($rows);

I hope this info helps. Thank you.

• James

• in reply to: Image Field to a Post
• July 16, 2019 at 10:25 pm

Hi @mikey2004

In this case, you can grab individual field values from the $_POST data like so:
$field_value_1 = $_POST['acf']['field_xxxxxxxxxxx'];
In this example, we are making use of field key to target a certain field and you can then add a new row of data to an existing repeater by making use of the following function: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/add_row/
I recommend using field keys in the above function since this allows ACF to correctly find the field if no existing value has been saved.

Thank you.

• James

• in reply to: Getting Custom fields from 2 different pages to compare (ajax?)
• July 16, 2019 at 10:19 pm

Hi @city17

Thanks for the question.

You can learn about using query vars from this article I found on the internet https://zeropointdevelopment.com/how-to-use-url-parameters-to-pass-data-to-wordpress/

Let me know if you need additional help. Thank you.

• James

• in reply to: Insert field at hook-position using function.php
• July 16, 2019 at 10:12 pm

Hi there,

Thanks for sharing these findings.

It is likely that you are calling the get_field() function before ACF is loaded. You can workaround this by making use of get_post_meta() native function to achieve the same result.
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post_meta/

I hope this info helps.

• James

• in reply to: New Attachment Field – Update images
• July 15, 2019 at 8:58 pm

Hi there,

Thanks for getting in touch!

You can workaround this issue by creating a custom foreach loop to step through all the gallery images and pass the field value to the update_field() function. The first parameter should be the field key as described on the following page: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/update_field/

I hope this info helps. Thank you.

• James

• in reply to: Image Field to a Post
• July 15, 2019 at 8:28 pm

Hello there,

Thanks for getting in touch!

You can assign a particular post id to the form through the ‘post_id’ parameter like so:

<?php acf_form(array(
					'post_id'	=> 123,
					'post_title'	=> false,
					'submit_value'	=> 'Update the post!'
				)); ?>

I hope this info helps. Thank you.

• James

• in reply to: Prevent duplicate entries
• July 15, 2019 at 8:11 pm

Hello,

Thanks for getting in touch!

You can create some custom PHP logic to check if the entered value already exists on the database and display an error if it fails validation.
Here is a filter that you can use: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-validate_value/

I hope this info helps. Thanks