All good advice, thanks. I really need to learn more about flexible fields – it’s one area of ACF I’ve never done anything with.
I still think if I remove an image, then switch the field type (conditionally hiding the image field itself), that ACF should honor the removal. So from an engineering point of view, you make elegant suggestions. From the standpoint of the bug report, I still feel some work could be done 🙂
I am 100% on board with this.
I’ve got clients who need to let their users do things like submit and edit a post. They don’t want that user to be able to feature the post on the front page though, which means rolling my own meta box in functions.php. Not that it’s hard to roll your own metabox with a “manage_options” conditional in a system like WP Alchemy – but boy, it’d sure be convenient if ACF did it natively.
