The priority doesn’t work because it appears the actual field is rendered using this action hook:
do_action( "acf/render_field/type={$field['type']}", $field );
The action hook do_action( "acf/render_field", $field ); appears before the one mentioned above. In order for priority to work, you need to use the 2nd hook using the field type. Hope that helps.
Ok, I think I came up with a working solution. Here’s the code:
https://gist.github.com/solepixel/e8f09b9ba781502f893274ff8bf6dcf1
Basically, each settings page needs a menu_slug and that menu_slug should have somewhat of a consistent naming convention to identify settings pages with common field groups.
Then, the settings page also needs a way of identifying the unique values, in my case they’re associated with Post Type Archives, so I’m using the Post Type.
I make sure the screen matches one of the desired settings pages, then I prefix the field with the Post Type, so I can grab the specific field setting in my theme. Hope that helps someone.
I would be curious to see a solution where duplicating the fields isn’t required. Sometimes post archive templates look the same, but they are custom and each require unique fields/settings. I may have 20 CPT Archives that all look the same and would be neat if the option storage could be connected with page it’s on. So for a field called “_description”, the slug of the page could be stored with it like “_staff_settings_description”.
I’ve tried modifying the field names to just post values under different fields, but ACF must be looking up the “option_name” value with the field ID and always store it under that name. I’m looking for this code to see if I can modify it as well.
@zaccety I think I figured out it had something to do with the placement of the function call. See here: https://github.com/solepixel/acf-modules/blob/master/modules/icon-blocks.php#L242
Notice that it’s outside “have_rows”. I’m pretty sure that’s all I needed to do and it returns the correct amount.
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This doesn’t seem to work inside a flexible content loop. The return from get_field() is NULL. I tried get_sub_field() and that returns false. Any suggestions?
