Hide ACF Fields on Production Website

Why hide acf fields on production

• fields wont get overwritten when deploying from local or staging
• stop clients from deleting acf fields in production

How to hide

• add to functions.php
• update protected urls

add_filter(
	'acf/settings/show_admin',
	function () {

		// Get the current site url.
		$site_url = get_bloginfo( 'url' );

		// Define an array of protected site urls.
		$protected_urls = array(
			'https://staging.cloud',
			'https://live.com.au',
		);

		// If the current site URL is in the array of protected URLs, return FALSE
		// to hide the menu.
		return ! in_array( $site_url, $protected_urls );
	}
);

more info

acf local json