Showing Private fields – a work around

Hello Igor, thank you so much for your response (even if it is now a year ago, but wanted to let you know that i’ve found a work around to my quandary of “With running a rescue, sometimes it is great to have particular information with adopted or soon to be adopted dogs profiles – such as Foster Carer details, even adoption details e.g. names and phone numbers. However, this information needs to be private – as in not displayed to the public.”

The simplest way I can come up with is to have a special user role such as “Rescue Coordinator”.

Create the private fields needed with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF). Integrate these fields only for the pets posts, and only for Rescue coordinators – without publishing them to the front end.

It’s a clunky way – but by doing this, I can also create groups of fields for the pets documents, and even give access to certain fields – such as desexing pdf files to only the person fostering that dog – and then later to the new dog’s owner.

If anyone would like to know more – am happy to write up a process for this in the near future when things have calmed down – we have lots of intakes at the moment.

Thank you so much for your response Igor, and thank you for any considerations to my quandary in the future.