• John Huebner

• in reply to: Why are some field types missing from documentation?
• December 7, 2015 at 2:49 am

I think that the main reason is that the developer doesn’t have time. Eliot does all of the work of development and maintaining the documentation himself.

I’ll mark this post for the developer to look at, but I can’t say when he’ll get to it. Maybe he’ll drop by and say something.

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Select field for client
• December 7, 2015 at 2:44 am

This can be done with conditional logic. You set the conditions in each of the fields you want to appear based on what the client selects for model.

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Using variables in Field Instructions
• December 7, 2015 at 2:42 am

you can use the acf/load_field filter to accomplish this. http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf_load_field/

Instead of field['choice'] like the example shows you can alter field['instructions']

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Hiding Attachment Post Default Fields in wp-admin
• December 7, 2015 at 2:38 am

The best advice that I can give is to hide them with CSS. I don’t know the details of the css you’d need to use but you can add css to the admin like this.

add_action('admin_init', 'hide_fields_on_attachments');
function hide_fields_on_attachments() {
  ?>
    <style type="text/css>
      /* add styles to override wp and hide fields */
    </style>
  <?php 
}

You can use a code inspector to figure out what style you need to add.

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Display field in back-end as plain text (NOT field)
• December 7, 2015 at 2:34 am

I have found that this add on works good for situations like this https://wordpress.org/plugins/acf-enhanced-message-field/

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Repeater in acf_form wont update
• December 7, 2015 at 2:32 am

There only things that I can think of that would cause this are

1) you have another field on the same form with the same field name
2) you have filter somewhere on the site that is interfering
3) you’re using a field that’s not somehow not attached to the post type

What do the code and arguments for acf_form() look like? Can you post that?

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Repeater in acf_form wont update
• December 5, 2015 at 12:43 am

What’s the name of the repeater field? is it unique?

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Delete meta field from database without phpmyadmin
• December 4, 2015 at 4:37 pm

Honestly, it’s a PITA if you can’t get access to a DB using phpMyAdmin. I’ve gotten to the point that I won’t take on clients if they can’t get me that access.

• John Huebner

• in reply to: the_sub_field as condition
• December 4, 2015 at 11:41 am

Sometimes it just takes another set of eyes on it. 🙂

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Delete meta field from database without phpmyadmin
• December 4, 2015 at 11:38 am

Have you looked at this https://wordpress.org/plugins/adminer/

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Using Relationship Fields with Sensei plugin
• December 4, 2015 at 11:33 am

If you have a custom field name ‘related_lessons’ and it is a relationship field that selects posts in a custom post type then what you’re doing should be working.

Does this output the permalink and the title of the lesson post?
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>

What kind of field is ‘author’ on the lesson post type?

• John Huebner

• in reply to: What happened to to-do list?
• December 4, 2015 at 11:26 am

I will mark this for the developer’s attention, but my guess is that he’s to busy doing development to keep up with a public to do list. Similar to the reason that he doesn’t read every topic on the forum.

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Export and page localization
• December 4, 2015 at 11:20 am

If you’re creating pages and field groups using code I would suggest that when you create the page in question that you store the post_id of the new page in an option value. Then alter the field group php to use that value for the location rule.

'location' => array (
  array (
    array (
      'param' => 'page',
      'operator' => '==',
      'value' => get_option('my_option_name'),
    ),
  ),
),

• John Huebner

• in reply to: the_sub_field as condition
• December 4, 2015 at 11:15 am

Change the_sub_field to get_sub_field.

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Filtering with posts that are using multiple select
• December 4, 2015 at 9:42 am

When you allow multiple values the values saved is no longer a single text value. Instead it is stored in the DB as a serialized array. You need to alter the meta query, you can see an example of the meta query and it would work the same as the meta query here http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/querying-relationship-fields/#single-location.php. See that page for an explanation of this code.

meta_query = array(
  array(
    'key' => 'type',
    'value' => '"'.$type.'"',
    'compare' => 'LIKE'
  )
)

• John Huebner

• in reply to: ACF Form Change input name
• December 4, 2015 at 8:18 am

You can use several method, if your host allows fopen with a url string http://php.net/manual/en/features.remote-files.php

if not then you will need to use CURL.

Unless the place you’re sending it to requires something special.

This really depends on where it’s going and there is a lot of information out there most of the possibilities.

• John Huebner

• in reply to: ACF Form Change input name
• December 3, 2015 at 11:34 pm

Yes, changing the names there will cause the data to fail being saved in the new post.

You will need to use either an acf/save_post (http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acfsave_post/) filter of an acf/pre_save_post (http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acfsave_post/) filter.

In the filter you can then get the values from the submitted fields and put them into an array with the names that you need to send to the 3rd party before sending the data.

• John Huebner

• in reply to: plugin shortcode doesn't work in wysiwyg field
• December 3, 2015 at 11:29 pm

The HTML output looks correct, the JS code is loading and I don’t see anything wrong with it, although I’m not really familiar with that plugin. The next question is, are you seeing any JavaScript errors for the page?

• John Huebner

• in reply to: conditional logic on taxonomy
• December 3, 2015 at 1:41 pm

Conditional logic for taxonomy and other fields has been discussed here before and the developer has said in the past that he’s working on it. I’ll mark this topic for him to take a look at. He has a lot on his plate.

In the mean time, my suggestion, if you really need to have conditional logic based on a taxonomy would be to use a select field that has dynamically generated choices. http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/dynamically-populate-a-select-fields-choices/

• John Huebner

• in reply to: plugin shortcode doesn't work in wysiwyg field
• December 3, 2015 at 1:28 pm

Is the accordion script being loaded? does it appear in the html output, it should be somewhere near the bottom before the closing </body> tag.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/accordion-shortcodes/faq/

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Reduce selection when searching for post in post object
• December 3, 2015 at 1:13 pm

I’ll mark this for the developer to look at when he has time.

• John Huebner

• in reply to: Dynamic Populate select options ( User Field )
• December 3, 2015 at 1:12 pm

Glad you got it worked out.