If you’ve ever found yourself wanting to modify the post titles in an ACF relationship field, you may have already stumbled across the acf/fields/relationship/result filter. It’s a pretty useful filter when you want to provide some more contextual information next to a post title in the relationship field results list. As with many filters built […]
One thing I really appreciate about the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin is the flexibility it offers via WordPress’ hook system. For most use cases, we can do what we need from the admin but now and then I come up against scenarios where it is either necessary or just a whole lot easier to […]
Ever found yourself wishing you could define an exact colour palette for ACF’s colour picker field? Good news! You totally can. Using the JavaScript API built right into Advanced Custom Fields we can use a very small snippet of code to specify exactly which colours appear in the palette of suggested colours. Now, in this […]
The ability to control exactly what buttons are available in a WYSIWYG field is a really neat point of customisation available in Advanced Custom Fields. The WYSIWYG field is definitely convenient but I often find myself needing to use it for no other reason than the most basic of formatting. Leaving too many options in […]
If you use Advanced Custom Fields a lot you are probably using ACF’s very awesome Local JSON feature. By default, ACF saves and loads all JSON files from the acf-json directory inside your theme but it is possible to take control of ACF’s behaviour to define your own custom load points as outlined in the […]
Having written plugins that extend the very popular WordPress plugin Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), I’ve come up against the need to work out a field’s key based on its field name. This normally comes up when structuring data for programmatic field update as ACF needs to the values mapped to field keys when updating complex […]
If, like me, you find yourself working with overloaded meta tables, you might consider eradicating certain values from the database. In this post, we look at exactly how you might do that when using Advanced Custom Fields.
