Stop ACF Fields Linking a Post to Itself
Removes the post being edited from the choices of ACF relationship and post object fields.
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Code
$wpide_acf_exclude_self = function ( $args, $field, $post_id ) {
if ( is_numeric( $post_id ) && $post_id ) {
$args['post__not_in'] = array_merge( (array) ( $args['post__not_in'] ?? array() ), array( (int) $post_id ) );
}
return $args;
};
add_filter( 'acf/fields/relationship/query', $wpide_acf_exclude_self, 10, 3 );
add_filter( 'acf/fields/post_object/query', $wpide_acf_exclude_self, 10, 3 );How to add this snippet
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