{"id":10432,"date":"2016-04-07T11:36:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T15:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docs.gravityforms.com\/?post_type=gdoc&#038;p=10432"},"modified":"2025-04-21T12:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:55:12","slug":"gform_gf_field_create","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/docs.gravityforms.com\/gform_gf_field_create\/","title":{"rendered":"gform_gf_field_create"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-description\">Description<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Use this filter to modify or replace the <code>GF_Field<\/code> object after it has been created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-usage\">Usage<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: php; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nadd_filter( 'gform_gf_field_create', 'my_custom_function', 10, 2 );\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-parameters\">Parameters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><thead><tr><th>Parameter<\/th><th>Type<\/th><th>Description<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>$field<\/strong><\/td><td><a data-autolink=\"autolink_gf_field\" href=\"\/gf_field\">GF_Field<\/a><\/td><td>A GF_Field object of the type specified by the <code>$properties['type']<\/code> or <code>$properties['inputType']<\/code> properties.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>$properties<\/strong><\/td><td><a data-autolink=\"autolink_array\" href=\"\/array\">array<\/a><\/td><td>An array of field properties that will be used to generate the <code>GF_Field<\/code> object.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-examples\">Examples<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-create-gf-field-object-based-on-type-property-rather-than-inputtype-property\">Create GF_Field object based on &#8220;type&#8221; property (rather than &#8220;inputType&#8221; property)<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: php; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nadd_filter( &#039;gform_gf_field_create&#039;, &#039;my_custom_function&#039;, 10, 2 );\nfunction my_custom_function( $field, $properties ) {\n\tif ( $field-&gt;type == &#039;myCustomFieldType&#039; ) {\n\t\t$field = new GF_My_Custom_Field_Type( $properties );\n\t}\n\treturn $field;\n}\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-placement\">Placement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This code can be used in the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/themes\/basics\/theme-functions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">functions.php<\/a> file of the active theme, a custom functions plugin, a custom add-on, or with a code snippets plugin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See also the PHP section in this article: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.gravityforms.com\/where-do-i-put-this-code\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Where Do I Put This Code?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-source-code\">Source Code<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This filter is located in <strong>GF_Fields::create()<\/strong> in <em>includes\/addon\/class-gf-fields.php<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-since\">Since<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This filter was added in Gravity Forms 2.0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use this filter to modify or replace the GF_Field object after it has been created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_autodraft_ids":[],"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","_is_real_time_mode":false,"_realtime_collaborators":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cf_checklist_status":[]},"categories":[12527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addon-framework-filters","wpautop"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>gform_gf_field_create - Gravity Forms Documentation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Master how to create fields in Gravity Forms. 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