• mcoop3r

• in reply to: Flexible layout with file field creates new pages.
• January 19, 2017 at 4:31 am

Same issue here with empty image fields.

WP 4.7.1
ACF 5.5.4

• mcoop3r

• in reply to: Use PHP to add a field which can be managed in Admin?
• July 7, 2015 at 9:03 am

I’d certainly consider paying for something like this, if you’d be interested in giving it a go, we should talk more!

• mcoop3r

• in reply to: Use PHP to add a field which can be managed in Admin?
• July 7, 2015 at 8:22 am

Thanks, I appreciate you taking the time to think about it! As much as I’d love to, right now I simply don’t have time to do the digging. I’ll put this idea on hold for now but if anyone decides they want to look into it, let me know!

• mcoop3r

• in reply to: Use PHP to add a field which can be managed in Admin?
• July 7, 2015 at 7:54 am

Nevermind, this seems to work 🙂

I added a default layout in my acf-json-defaults file, then was able to add a new field via the admin.

I did then try to add another field to the JSON, to see if that would then sync with the admin to add the new field, but that didn’t work. Any ideas or is that asking too much?

• mcoop3r

• in reply to: Use PHP to add a field which can be managed in Admin?
• July 7, 2015 at 7:48 am

Also reading the documentation:

“JSON field groups are determined ‘available for sync’ when either the JSON field group does not exist in the DB (field group key is used to match pair), or when the JSON field group contains a higher ‘modified’ value than the DB post’s modified date.”

That seems to be the wrong way round for what I want to do. I want the Database to be a higher modified value than the JSON. Unless I am missing something?

• mcoop3r

• in reply to: Use PHP to add a field which can be managed in Admin?
• July 7, 2015 at 7:33 am

Ok could be moving in the right direction…

So I didn’t mention that this is using a parent / child theme relationship. I want the JSON to live in the parent theme and then for the child theme to read that JSON and add it to the admin.

I’ve tried adding a folder in my parent theme “acf-json-defaults”, and this code to my functions.php.

function my_acf_json_load_point( $paths ) {
    
    // remove original path (optional)
    unset($paths[0]);
    
    // append path
    $paths[] = get_template_directory_uri() . '/acf-json-defaults';
    
    // return
    return $paths;
    
}
add_filter('acf/settings/load_json', 'my_acf_json_load_point');

But it only seems to work if I put the “acf-json-defaults” folder in the child theme. Even then, when I save the field in admin, it creates a new JSON file with the same key in the “acf-json” folder.

Does that make sense??