Hello yoyatom!
Thanks for the feature request. In fact, there’s no option to disable layouts in the plugin yet. This setting would be interesting, but I think users would like to have large control over it. For example, instead of a site-wide disable, they would like to disable a layout on a specific post type, or for specific users.
The scope of the setting would become kind of complicated if I wanted to implement such controls. A side-wide disable setting is kinda easy tho. I’ll think about it for the next update.
In the meantime, here is a simple code implementation you can use in your functions.php file:
add_filter('acf/prepare_field/type=flexible_content', 'my_flexible_content_layouts');
function my_flexible_content_layouts($field){
// Bail early if no layouts
if(!isset($field['layouts']) || empty($field['layouts']))
return $field;
foreach($field['layouts'] as $layout_key => $layout){
// Target layout name: hero
if($layout['name'] === 'hero'){
// Disable
unset($field['layouts'][$layout_key]);
}
}
// return
return $field;
}
In this example, the layout named hero is being targeted. This will disable the layout globally (but it will be still present in the field configuration).
Notice: if you already saved posts with the said layout (before implementing the code), the front-end have_rows() or the_flexible() functions will still display it. You will have to manually re-save each posts in order to fix this.
To avoid that, a solution would be to use acf/load_field instead of acf/prepare_field. But acf/load_field is touchy, because it’s used everywhere in WordPress. This means the layout will disapear from the field configuration. You could use get_current_screen() to check if you’re in the ACF administration or in post edition.
But in my opinion acf/prepare_field is the best solution here.
