Title: Plugin breaking ACF Pro repeater fields
Last modified: May 9, 2023

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# Plugin breaking ACF Pro repeater fields

 *  Resolved [Mike Manger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikemanger/)
 * (@mikemanger)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-acf-pro-repeater-fields/)
 * We’ve noticed that AFC repeater fields are broken if for some reason the ‘Exclude
   from Search Results’ is checked on the edit field group page. It is causing the`
   get_field()` function to return a string instead of an array. This seems to be
   related to the `pre_get_posts` query which I think is too aggressive.

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 *  Plugin Author [quadlayers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quadlayers/)
 * (@quadlayers)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-acf-pro-repeater-fields/#post-16724079)
 * Hello [@mikemanger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikemanger/)
 * Can you please share a the output with and without Search Exclude activated and
   a step by step to reproduce

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 * Last reply from: [quadlayers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quadlayers/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-acf-pro-repeater-fields/#post-16724079)
 * Status: resolved