{"id":157142,"date":"2025-02-21T04:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T04:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/secure-custom-fields\/code-reference\/acf-utility-functions-file\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T05:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T05:46:12","slug":"acf-utility-functions-file","status":"publish","type":"scf-handbook","link":"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/secure-custom-fields\/code-reference\/acf-utility-functions-file\/","title":{"rendered":"Acf Utility Functions Global Functions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><code>acf_new_instance()<\/code><\/h2>\n<p>acf_new_instance<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creates a new instance of the given class and stores it in the instances data store.<\/li>\n<li>@date    9\/1\/19<\/li>\n<li>@since ACF 5.7.10<\/li>\n<li>@param   string $class The class name.<\/li>\n<li>@return object The instance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><code>acf_get_instance()<\/code><\/h2>\n<p>Returns an instance for the given class.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>@date  9\/1\/19<\/li>\n<li>@since ACF 5.7.10<\/li>\n<li>@param string $class The class name.<\/li>\n<li>@return object The instance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><code>acf_register_store()<\/code><\/h2>\n<p>acf_register_store<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Registers a data store.<\/li>\n<li>@date    9\/1\/19<\/li>\n<li>@since ACF 5.7.10<\/li>\n<li>@param   string $name The store name.<\/li>\n<li>@param array  $data Array of data to start the store with.<\/li>\n<li>@return ACF_Data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><code>acf_get_store()<\/code><\/h2>\n<p>acf_get_store<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Returns a data store.<\/li>\n<li>@date    9\/1\/19<\/li>\n<li>@since ACF 5.7.10<\/li>\n<li>@param   string $name The store name.<\/li>\n<li>@return ACF_Data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><code>acf_switch_stores()<\/code><\/h2>\n<p>acf_switch_stores<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Triggered when switching between sites on a multisite installation.<\/li>\n<li>@date    13\/2\/19<\/li>\n<li>@since ACF 5.7.11<\/li>\n<li>@param   integer                       $site_id New blog ID.<\/li>\n<li>@param int prev_blog_id Prev blog ID.<\/li>\n<li>@return void<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><code>acf_get_path()<\/code><\/h2>\n<p>acf_get_path<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Returns the plugin path to a specified file.<\/li>\n<li>@date    28\/9\/13<\/li>\n<li>@since ACF 5.0.0<\/li>\n<li>@param   string $filename The specified file.<\/li>\n<li>@return string<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><code>acf_get_url()<\/code><\/h2>\n<p>acf_get_url<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Returns the plugin url to a specified file.<br \/>\nThis function also defines the ACF_URL constant.<\/li>\n<li>@date    12\/12\/17<\/li>\n<li>@since ACF 5.6.8<\/li>\n<li>@param   string $filename The specified file.<\/li>\n<li>@return string<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><code>acf_include()<\/code><\/h2>\n<p>Includes a file within the ACF plugin.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>@date    10\/3\/14<\/li>\n<li>@since ACF 5.0.0<\/li>\n<li>@param   string $filename The specified file.<\/li>\n<li>@return void<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":157128,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-157142","scf-handbook","type-scf-handbook","status-publish","hentry","type-handbook"],"revision_note":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scf-handbook\/157142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scf-handbook"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/scf-handbook"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scf-handbook\/157142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157319,"href":"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scf-handbook\/157142\/revisions\/157319"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scf-handbook\/157128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}