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13th Feb '24
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Programmatically populating ACF field values in WordPress

ACF has a handy acf/load_field filter for programmatically filling the choices of field types like 'Select' that have multiple values.

This Pro tutorial provides an example of how to set the values of a Select-type field with the names and labels of all public post types in the site.

Notices how Choices are empty.

Now let's use the acf/load_field filter to automatically populate the choices with public post types minus attachments and Bricks templates.

Result after implementing the tutorial:

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