• lefthookdigital

• in reply to: How to display Field Names alongside Field Labels
• July 17, 2019 at 7:53 am

Actually no- I am using the “render field” hook, to simply add the field name to my backend like so:

https://cl.ly/4fea604f2b91

I appreciate your suggestion to simply “output the field’s settings so I can look at it rather than look up any documentation if it exists” but I don’t know how to do that 🙂

But I can follow directions. Hopefully this thread will be useful to the next boob interested in altering the way ACF displays field data in the backend!

• lefthookdigital

• in reply to: How to display Field Names alongside Field Labels
• July 17, 2019 at 4:24 am

Yay that did it! Thanks, John!

The preceding underscore was the right field to call (‘_name’ vs ‘name’)

As for knowing what specific value to call in this function… isn’t there a reference published anywhere of these core ACF values?

I’ve search the ACF site and don’t see this particular field (_name) anywhere in any reference doc. Anybody prove me wrong?

• lefthookdigital

• in reply to: How to display Field Names alongside Field Labels
• July 16, 2019 at 8:55 am

John,

I appreciate the reply. I entered the first sample code you offered (adding rather than replacing) into my child theme’s functions.php file, and it definitely affected a change to the way my fields render when editing any page.

However, the actual value I’m after (the short-code-able field_name) isn’t rendering. Instead, I get a different output. See attached screenshot.

Perhaps there is another value to enter other than ‘name’ to get what I’m after?

Again- the value I want displayed next to the label is the “name” that I use in a shortcode, with underscores between the words comprising the field’s name words.

Example for clarity:

Label: Tom’s Field Example

Name for shortcode: toms_field_example

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