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Created February 6, 2018 22:37
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Convert ACF Fields Registered by PHP to Importable JSON Format
$groups = acf_get_local_field_groups();
$json = [];
foreach ($groups as $group) {
// Fetch the fields for the given group key
$fields = acf_get_local_fields($group['key']);
// Remove unecessary key value pair with key "ID"
unset($group['ID']);
// Add the fields as an array to the group
$group['fields'] = $fields;
// Add this group to the main array
$json[] = $group;
}
$json = json_encode($json, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
// Optional - echo the JSON data to the page
echo "<pre>";
echo $json;
echo "</pre>";
// Write output to file for easy import into ACF.
// The file must be writable by the server process. In this case, the file is located in
// the current theme directory.
$file = get_template_directory() . '/acf-import.json';
file_put_contents($file, $json );
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