I've been searching for a way to sync ACF fields across sites on a WordPress multi-site. There are 5 sites with individual content but they all use the same ACF fields. I'd rather avoid having to manually create and add these new fields on each site.
Is there a workaround?
Using WP 4.8 and ACF Pro 5.5.1.4
There is a great Gist by Jesse Pearson which automatically syncs all acf-json files when the admin logs in:
https://gist.github.com/jessepearson/a537b2f78556cd705947
In the comments to the gist you can also find several improvements on the code, watch out for those!
Saved me a ton of time.
You can sync the fields no problem as long as you are attaching them to template names and not specific pages or posts.
https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/synchronized-json/
Just make a quick change to your function.php file.
https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/local-json/
I have used the exported PHP code method when I am done working locally and want to update a production theme.
