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How to use ACF to add user profile meta-ACF support?
The add edit for is the user edit form that you see if you as an admin add or edit a user or a user edits their own profile. Sorry to resurrect this thread but is it also possible to only display the custom ACF User fields for certain user Roles in the add/edit view?
Can you show ACF fields on a user page?
ACF fields cannot be shown there. You can only show fields on pages made for editing something, post, term, user. Thanks for your reply! What would be the “user” page then?
How to create custom posts in ACF-users insights?
The Advanced Custom Fields plugin is a plugin that allows you to easily create blocks of custom fields. These blocks can be used in your custom posts, pages, custom post types, users, attachments and taxonomies. Although the plugin is simple to use, it allows you to apply complex logic rules to your fields.
What can you do with the ACF-users plugin?
Although the plugin is simple to use, it allows you to apply complex logic rules to your fields. For example, you can apply fields just to posts of a certain category or even to a specific post.
How to get values from a user in ACF?
All the template functions ( get_field, the_field, etc) can be used to load values from a user, however, a second parameter is required to target the user. This is similar to passing through a $post_id parameter to target a specific post object.
Do you need a custom post type in ACF?
You might need to add a custom post type for holding user information and put a user field on that post type that relates the post to the user and then to get the values you’d need to search the posts for the post for that user. You’d also need to set the post type up so that the user can edit it.
Where is the ACF head code in ACF-users?
What this code does is call the acf_form_head function in the head of your page. This function loads all the required assets and code for our user profile fields form. This code is only added on the posts / pages that have the shortcode that we are using – this will avoid loading the ACF head code on the rest of your pages.