• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: Basic textfield with simple formatting options (bold, italic, links, …)
• May 19, 2023 at 10:46 am

Alright, fair enough. Thanks for the quick reply!

Hopefully another similar solution gets put into the core soon.

• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: Basic textfield with simple formatting options (bold, italic, links, …)
• May 17, 2023 at 10:27 am

@hube2 I noticed this is yours: https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/acf-medium-editor-field/

Any reason why it’s been taken down? I’d like such functionality, but I really don’t want to make my clients depend on something that is potentially out of production.

• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: Flexible content fields – global expand and collapse
• May 3, 2023 at 11:44 am

I messed around with a code to collapse with shift-click on Flexible Content ‘headers’. Shift-click felt more natural than a button somewhere on the page.

It also works with the pretty-edit-pen icon from ACF Extended. Not further tested on other Extended settings.

It checks if the currently clicked header is open/closed, and applies open/close to all other elements accordingly. Some weird timeout function was required not to interfere with (probably) default click behaviour?

For anyone interested you can add this to admin JS:

    // Function to handle shift+click event on .acf-fc-layout-handle
    $('.acf-fc-layout-handle').on('click', function(e) {
        if (e.shiftKey) {
            e.preventDefault();
            closestLayout = $(this).closest('.layout');

            if (closestLayout.hasClass('-collapsed')) {
                // console.log('Layout is hidden');
                setTimeout(function(){
                    $('.acf-flexible-content .values .layout').removeClass('-collapsed');
                    $('.acf-flexible-content .acfe-fc-placeholder').addClass('acf-hidden');
                  }, 1);
            } else {
                // console.log('Layout is visible');
                setTimeout(function(){
                    $('.acf-flexible-content .values .layout').addClass('-collapsed');
                    $('.acf-flexible-content .acfe-fc-placeholder').removeClass('acf-hidden');
                  }, 1);
            }
        } 
    });

• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: Displaying correct postID content on blog page (home.php)
• June 28, 2021 at 10:27 pm

Hi John,

Thanks, but as explained i’d have to change tens or hundreds of fields in a few dozen files.

Is there a better way to just force *any* ACF fields between a piece of code to return a certain page – without modifying every individual get/the_field?

• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: Wrong Gallery order in other languages
• May 28, 2021 at 6:33 pm

Wow how did you give this solution one day before I needed it. That’s brilliant, and works like a charm!

• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: Query field that lives outside the repeater loop
• March 11, 2021 at 11:51 pm

I solved it by creating a CSS class from the value before the loop, then hide/show it based on that class.

Not ideal as it’s unnecessary HTML, but works for this situation.

• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: Query field that lives outside the repeater loop
• March 11, 2021 at 9:46 pm

I don’t think it works because it lives inside another Flexible Content row (should have specified), which also requires get_sub_field – right?

• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: How to auto sync json acf groups in multisite network?
• February 10, 2021 at 3:47 am

That’s brilliant, seems to work well – thanks!

• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: How to auto sync json acf groups in multisite network?
• February 10, 2021 at 1:45 am

@hube2 – I guessed it would work automatically, but I re-read your post and saw this:

Part of the parent theme code is checking to see if a child theme is being loaded and if it is then it adds a load point to load the field groups from the parent theme.

Could you elaborate a bit on this, how would I set this up?

• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: How to auto sync json acf groups in multisite network?
• February 10, 2021 at 1:44 am

I was using get_stylesheet_directory_uri in the parent theme so it threw it for a loop 😉

That said, I currently have this setup:

Network admin
– English “main site” with the parent theme enabled
– German, child-theme from EN
– Russian, child-theme from EN

However, when I add/edit ACF Custom Fields they don’t sync/show up in the DE/RU version. Am I missing something?

• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: How to auto sync json acf groups in multisite network?
• February 10, 2021 at 1:05 am

@hube2

I do not sync field groups to all sites in a mutlisite installation. There is not really any need to do this.

This is what I do.

I create a theme with an acf-json folder and I activate this theme on only one site. This is my dev site. This is the only place where changes to a field group are made.

Any other site in the network that uses this theme is set up using a child theme. Part of the parent theme code is checking to see if a child theme is being loaded and if it is then it adds a load point to load the field groups from the parent theme. No syncing to these sites is needed.

I’m trying this solution, but even with all plugins disabled I keep getting endless loading (white screen) when I activate the child theme and visit the front-end.

I’ve tried manual child theme and a plugin “child theme creator” but neither work. Any ideas? I’m nog 100% knowledgable on multisites.

• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: ACF Blocks issue when made "reusable"
• December 30, 2020 at 11:17 pm

This appears to be a (re-appearing) bug.

• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: ACF blocks cramped in right sidebar of editor
• December 30, 2020 at 2:40 am

Currently giving Gutenberg another go (instead of Flexible Content taking over the old editor) and this still is an issue.

Unfortunately the only real solution is just to force the mode => ‘edit’ and just have people edit in the main editor instead of the sidebar. Kinda defeats the purpose of Gutenberg, but at least it’s more native than Flexible Content blocks.

• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: How to add fields to Gutenburgs "Advanced" block settings
• December 30, 2020 at 2:37 am

+1

Would be nice to add advanced options in the sidebar, to stay true to native WP styling as much as possible.

• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: Repeater fields creating huge database
• December 8, 2020 at 11:57 pm

Cheers NickDA, that put me at ease a little bit.

Our front-end is really fast and optimised with WP Rocket. Theme, except the database, is very lean as well.

Couldn’t you create a custom WP json for a search function? I do understand it will slow down the default WP Search, but for us that’s not an issue for this website.

We’ll keep going this route, perhaps update server when we feel like the DB starts slowing down.

• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: Flush Unused Custom Fields
• December 7, 2020 at 12:33 am

+1 for this feature. One of the biggest issues I’m running into with ACF is a bloated database at the moment, for this reason but also tons of empty entries being saved to the DB.

• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: ACF and WPML 'field-functions.php on line 353' error upon saving page
• June 3, 2020 at 10:43 pm

Update: After testing on a staging environment, I noticed that using a Clone field within Flexible Content causes issues. Not the error perse, but it starts incorrectly showing the fields content on the front-end.

This is of course related to translating with WPML, it works fine without WPML.

Any workaround for this? Suggestions?

• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: acf-field-functions.php:349 – Undefined index: key
• June 2, 2020 at 10:12 pm

Recently got this problem installing WPML on a ACF heavy site. From reading this topic, it seems to mess up primarily with Repeater Fields/Flexible content?

Any way to solve this yet?

• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: Performance of Backend super slow
• May 30, 2020 at 7:44 pm

I must say +1 to finding a solution to this.

I rely heavily on flexible content ‘blocks’, in which each page can be customized heavily. Each block has a clone of ‘advanced settings’, which is then loaded for each flexible content block. It very quickly adds to loading and saving times.

I’d love to make more complex flexible content blocks for my projects, but I feel myself limiting options as to make it more lean. Not for the front-end, I take care of that obviously, but simply for backend loading.

Any kind of lazyload (setting), or only saving fields that have been edited would be a great addition to ACF, and open up a new range of possibilities for many of us.

• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: Pre-populate mulitiple Repeater rows
• March 31, 2020 at 11:30 pm

Thanks John,

The empty $value returns bool(false).

I currently use the following which seems to work:

// Add pre-populated Repeater Fields
function my_acf_load_value($value, $post_id, $field) {
  
  if ($value !== FALSE) {
    return $value;
  }
  $value = array(
    array(
      'field_5e8317693aa96' => 'Production',
    ),
    array(
      'field_5e8317693aa96' => 'Director',
    ),
    array(
      'field_5e8317693aa96' => 'Author',
    ),
    array(
      'field_5e8317693aa96' => 'Artist',
    ),
    array(
      'field_5e8317693aa96' => 'Etc'
    )
  );
  return $value;

}
add_filter('acf/load_value/name=team', 'my_acf_load_value', 1, 3);

Thanks a bunch!

• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: Pre-populate mulitiple Repeater rows
• March 31, 2020 at 9:32 pm

Hi John,

I’ve tried this on a fresh install and it doesn’t work either.

• When I comment out if if ($value !== NULL) it at least gets to the $value array. If I don’t, it always seems to return NULL.
• The $value array runs, but only creates a repeater for each array (2 in the example) but the fields themselves are empty.
• Var dump returns array(2) { [0]=> array(2) { ["title"]=> string(10) "Production" ["member"]=> string(7) "Testone" } [1]=> array(2) { ["title"]=> string(6) "Artist" ["member"]=> string(7) "Testtwo" } }

Thank you for your efforts so far!

• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: Display Taxonomy field from within Group
• March 23, 2020 at 11:17 pm

No worries, my bashing my head was before your solution popped up 🙂

I’m not too familiar with PHP and arrays/objects, so the solution was indeed to realise if I was working with arrays or objects, or objects inside arrays.

Thanks for helping out!

• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: Display Taxonomy field from within Group
• March 20, 2020 at 9:46 pm

Hi @speakincode, thank you for your help!

I’ve been bashing my head at it for hours yesterday. Your code throws a fatal error:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Cannot use object of type WP_Term as array in ...

What eventually seemed to work was this. Don’t know if it’s very elegant PHP…

$directorArray = $team['Director'];
$commaArray = $director->name;
$commaArray = array();
foreach ($directorArray as $director){ 
    $commaArray[] = '<span>'.$director->name.'</span>';
}
echo implode( ', ', $commaArray );

• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: Pre-populate mulitiple Repeater rows
• March 11, 2020 at 3:17 am

Hi John,

Unfortunately both options did nothing to the fields.

Adding some echo text in between the function makes it seem like it’s not running at all? Any other way to test this?

Thanks!

• daveoudshoorn

• in reply to: Adding ACF taxonomy terms to post/page
• March 11, 2020 at 2:13 am

Oh i’m dumb, it’s literally a setting in the ACF taxonomy options.

For anyone curious, simply select the following in the Taxonomy option:

Save Terms
Connect selected terms to the post

I had to re-save the specific post/page to make it work tho.