How to add custom fields in ACF programmatically? - wordpress

Question

I want to programmatically add a tab with repeater inside but I can't seem to find a solution, I've googled all available resources but still not working.
I already tried using acf_add_local_field_group and acf_add_local_field but still no luck.
Well I can create a tab using acf_add_local_field but when I tried to add a child which in this case a repeater OR even a text field it still doesn't work.
Here's my code to create a tab and its child but the child doesn't work.
acf_add_local_field(array(
'key' => 'field_1',
'label' => 'Sub Title',
'name' => 'sub_title',
'type' => '',
'parent' => 'field_5bd14c9349930',
'fields' => array (
array(
'key' => 'field_2',
'label' => 'This is a test',
'name' => 'my_test',
'type' => 'text',
)
)
));

Answer 1

You should use acf_add_local_field_group to construct the whole field group.
Here's the proper code for adding a group and a custom tab with single repeater field inside:
if( function_exists('acf_add_local_field_group') ):
acf_add_local_field_group(array (
'key' => 'group_1',
'title' => 'My Group',
'fields' => array (
array (
'key' => 'field_unique_key',
'label' => 'First Tab',
'name' => '',
'type' => 'tab',
'instructions' => '',
'required' => 0,
'conditional_logic' => 0,
'wrapper' => array (
'width' => '',
'class' => '',
'id' => '',
),
'placement' => 'top',
'endpoint' => 0,
),
array (
'key' => 'field_unique_key',
'label' => 'Simple Repeater',
'name' => 'simple_repeater',
'type' => 'repeater',
'instructions' => '',
'required' => 0,
'conditional_logic' => 0,
'wrapper' => array (
'width' => '',
'class' => '',
'id' => '',
),
'collapsed' => '',
'min' => 0,
'max' => 10,
'layout' => 'table',
'button_label' => 'Add row',
'sub_fields' => array ( // Here you can add as many subfields for this repeater as you want
array (
'key' => 'field_unique_key',
'label' => 'Link',
'name' => 'link',
'type' => 'link', // example link type
'instructions' => 'Link name and URL',
'required' => 0,
'conditional_logic' => 0,
'wrapper' => array (
'width' => '',
'class' => '',
'id' => '',
),
'return_format' => 'array',
),
),
),
),
'location' => array (
array (
array (
'param' => 'post_type',
'operator' => '==',
'value' => 'post',
),
),
),
'menu_order' => 0,
'position' => 'normal',
'style' => 'default',
'label_placement' => 'top',
'instruction_placement' => 'label',
'hide_on_screen' => '',
));
endif;