WordHerd just finished building a custom user database and profile search in WordPress for a customer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When building the user database we needed to add additional image fields to user profiles. The issue was that when a user logged in to edit their profile they would have access to the media library through the image uploader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In order to resolve this we found a great solution from a Guru on the ACF forum, but we had to tweak the code slightly. Below is a tweaked version of the code he provided. The only difference is that the original was meant for the front-end, where as this is for the admin user edit page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\/\/ force basic uploader for a certain field\nfunction my_acf_force_basic_uploader( $field ) {\n\n\/\/ set the uploader setting before rendering the field\nacf_update_setting('uploader', 'basic');\n\nreturn $field;\n}\n\n\/\/ target the field using its name (Replace field_name)\nadd_filter('acf\/prepare_field\/name=field_name', 'my_acf_force_basic_uploader');<\/pre>\n\n\n\n