• John Huebner

• in reply to: Translation problems options page
• July 29, 2017 at 1:18 am

Please open a new support ticket on this here https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/new-ticket/

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Saving Issue on Very Loaded Posts
• July 28, 2017 at 11:12 pm

to know it it’s related to max_input_vars install this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-max-submit-protect/. If there are too many inputs this plugin will pop up a warning telling you what you have it set to and how many you are attempting to submit.

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Retrieve id for $widget_id
• July 28, 2017 at 9:17 am

according to what I can find, that is correct http://blog.netgloo.com/2014/09/28/creating-a-custom-widget-with-advanced-custom-fields-pro-in-wordpress/

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Nested meta_query causing database to time out (or give HTTP error 502)
• July 28, 2017 at 8:56 am

This isn’t an inefficiency or ACF. It’s more of a problem with WP, although, that’s not really the case either. The problems are that your query is creating many, many joins doing multiple searches on a database column than is not optimized for searching.

This is explained in many places like https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/158898/meta-query-terribly-slow and https://tommcfarlin.com/wp_query-and-multiple-meta-keys/.

There might not be a way to actually correct this, what follows is only a possible work around that has not been tested.

1. Split your OR meta queries and do 3 separate queries
2. Return just the post IDs from these 3 queries
3. Use array_merge() http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-merge.php to combine the results of the previous queries and array_unique() http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-unique.php to get only unique values $ids = array_unique(array_merge($array1, $array2, $array3));
4. Use the resulting array to do a 4th query using this array as the post__in argument. You would only need to do your sorting by the date in this last query.

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Bug FILE field and IMAGE field in front-end bug in 5.6.0
• July 28, 2017 at 5:10 am

Please submit bug reports by opening a new ticket here https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/new-ticket/

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Saving Issue on Very Loaded Posts
• July 28, 2017 at 5:02 am

Does the page time out? What does it do exactly?

• John Huebner

• in reply to: CPT Output all map markers to one map
• July 28, 2017 at 4:56 am

No problem on being a little snarky, I didn’t really notice that, just wanted to help in any small way I could. Glad you got your problem worked out.

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Frontend form without submit
• July 27, 2017 at 10:48 pm

I’m not completely sure how WC works in this case, but no, I don’t think acf_form() will help you.

Guessing that this is what’s happening

1. Submit form
2. WC does an AJAX request to submit the form
3. WC redirects

ACF fields have not been submitted yet, ACF does not run on the AJAX request, but if you use acf_form() it is still loading everything that it would normally load for field validation and detecting changes.

In order to use acf_form() you would need to:

1. Add an action to all form fields and the form submit action that would clear the flag that tells ACF that something has been changed – I don’t know how to do this
2. You would need to call acf_form_head() in your filter – This is a guess, I don’t know if this will work
3. You would still need an acf/pre_save_post filter to cause ACF to save the values to the user instead of $order_id

There are a lot of pieces here and some of what needs to be done is unknown. For me, it would just be easier to hand code the form fields rather than use ACF form and then update the user ACF fields with those values using update_field(). The amount of work and code would be far less, not to mention the hours of testing that would be involved and possibly completely failing to get it to work since I’m not certain that it can be done.

• John Huebner

• in reply to: use get_field in other plugin to get a custom post field
• July 27, 2017 at 10:14 pm

I don’t know what that hook is or when it is called. If you want to run your function after ACF has saved values then you should be using acf/save_post https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-save_post/

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Edit Image Popup Blank
• July 27, 2017 at 10:04 pm

I’m not seeing this when testing. It’s possible that it’s caused by a conflict with another plugin or your theme. Try deactivating other plugins and maybe changing themes to see if you can correct the problem. It may also be due to a PHP or JavaScript error during the AJAX request.

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Frontend form without submit
• July 27, 2017 at 9:58 pm

I gather from this that WC is submitting it’s form through AJAX. In that case I would add my own form fields to the WC form and then use the acf update functions like https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/update_field/ to manually update the ACF user fields myself. When using these functions you should use the field key and not the field name to do the updates. You could also use update_user_meta() like in your example but you need to update the ACF field key reference in addition to the meta value, but it would be easier to use update_field using the field keys.

• John Huebner

• in reply to: use get_field in other plugin to get a custom post field
• July 27, 2017 at 9:49 pm

You would need to use php date functions to convert the date to what you need.

If you’re function is being called too early then what you need to do is have it called later. Is this a filter/action running on some WP hook?

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Frontend form without submit
• July 27, 2017 at 8:56 am

If you can modify the code where the WC form is displayed you can use acf_form() with the form option set to false. You will also not be able to use the WC hook and you’ll need to create an acf/pre_save_post action https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-pre_save_post/ to do the work otherwise ACF will go ahead and save the values to the order no matter what you do in the WC filter, and all you’ll really need to do in the filter (i think, don’t hold me to this) is to return the ID for the user like.

// this is just a guess
$post_id = 'user_'.$user_id;
return $post_id;

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Populate Select field with files in media library
• July 27, 2017 at 8:32 am

The easiest way would be to create a file field and set the allowed file types to .pdf. This will only allow the editor to select pdf files from the media library.

If you want to do this the hard way you could https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/dynamically-populate-a-select-fields-choices/. You’ll need to do a query of the attachments to get all the pdf files to use to do the population. I’m not sure how you’d do this but this looks like it might do the trick https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/22069/is-it-possible-to-query-specific-wordpress-attachment-files-ppt-pdf-and-ou

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Simple Request – Row Dividers
• July 27, 2017 at 8:10 am

You’ve also go the wrong hook

<?php 
  
  function acf_mod_styles() {
    ?>
      <style type="text/css">
        .acf-repeater.-row>table>tbody>tr+tr>td,
        .acf-repeater.-block>table>tbody>tr+tr>td {
          border-top-color: #a8a8a8; // about twice as dark
        }
      </style>
    <?php
  }
  add_action('acf/input/admin_head', 'acf_mod_styles');
  
?>

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Simple Request – Row Dividers
• July 27, 2017 at 7:53 am

for block and row layouts

.acf-repeater.-row > table > tbody > tr+tr > td,
.acf-repeater.-block > table > tbody > tr+tr > td {
  border-top-color: #000;
}

• John Huebner

• in reply to: CPT Output all map markers to one map
• July 27, 2017 at 7:37 am

It may be that it was read, but that no one has read it that can help you. This is a users helping other users forum.

The best help that I can offer is to point you to additional documentation, there is a section on this page that covers adding mutliple markers near the end of the page. https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/google-map/

There is also another post on it here, but it’s quite old so I don’t know if there’s anything in it that would be helpful https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/multiple-post-points-on-google-maps/

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Saving Issue on Very Loaded Posts
• July 27, 2017 at 7:27 am

If there is a problem with the values being saved then it is probably https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/limit-number-fields/

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Strip iframe tags but output the url
• July 26, 2017 at 9:55 pm

<?php 
	$value = get_sub_field('embed_iframe', false);
if (preg_match('/src="([^"]+)/', $value, $matches)) {
  $url = $matches[1];
}

echo $url;
?>

• John Huebner

• in reply to: ACF Pro 5.6 Update: "Restructured plugin files"
• July 26, 2017 at 9:54 pm

Thanks for the explanation gummi, that sheds light on the add ons that do seem to be having a problem, like the image crop field that extends the image field, although that one also seems to be having an issue due to a change in the image field’s return value.

• John Huebner

• in reply to: same field instance on 2 sub options page?
• July 26, 2017 at 12:25 pm

Fields on options pages must have unique field names and field keys. All values are stored in the option table.

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Cannot remove fields
• July 26, 2017 at 11:34 am

I just tested this with several types of fields and I’m not having an issue deleting fields. Is it all fields or one field in particular? Can you supply more information of the field(s) that you cannot delete?

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Hot to build shortcode for returning images in Gallery
• July 26, 2017 at 11:33 am

Creating a custom shortcode is not really an ACF subject, even if you’re using an ACF field to do it, which is why you’re not going to find any information on it on the ACF site or in any of the documentation.

This WP page has most of the information you’ll need on creating shortcodes https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_shortcode and you can find many tutorials on creating custom sortcodes.

• John Huebner

• in reply to: How to dynamically remove choices from select field?
• July 26, 2017 at 11:15 am

One observation is that the first 3 lines of the code you posted should be inside of the function.

You said this is a select field? Is that the ACF field type or is the field actually a relationship or maybe a post object field?

• John Huebner

• in reply to: How to change the scope of a custom field group?
• July 26, 2017 at 10:44 am

https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/how-to-get-values-from-another-post/