Advanced Custom Fields acf-json support for child themes

functions::acf_settings_load_json.php

<?php
/**
 * Child theme support for acf-json
 * This will load acf-json from the parent theme first.
 * That way if a child theme's acf-json folder contains a .json
 * file with the same name as the parent, it will get loaded second
 */
add_filter('acf/settings/save_json', function() {
  return get_stylesheet_directory() . '/acf-json';
});

add_filter('acf/settings/load_json', function($paths) {
  // $paths will already include the result of get_stylesheet_directory ie. parent theme's acf-json
  if(is_child_theme()) {
    $paths[] = get_template_directory() . '/acf-json';
  }
  return $paths;
});

@joeltransky Greetings, do you put this in the child functions.php or the parents?

@joeltransky Greetings, do you put this in the child functions.php or the parents?

This goes into your parent theme. Very useful.