Okay, why are my custom taxonomies not saving anymore

• boriskamp1991

• September 16, 2015 at 4:40 am

Hi guys!

Why are my custom taxonomies not saving to my cpt’s anymore? the terms are loaded but not saved to the post.

How could this have happened at once?
Im building a pretty big community website and this is not acceptable if you ask me and brings me in trouble.

Let me know what you’d need to know.

• John Huebner

• September 16, 2015 at 7:20 am

Is this on admin forms or front end forms? I’ve tried with both and everything seems to be working.

Have you tried all the usual suspects, deactivating other plugins, trying another theme, etc?

Could this have something to do with the taxonomy term split? Are the terms that are not saving properly named the same as terms in some other taxonomy like tags or categories?

• boriskamp1991

• September 24, 2015 at 3:34 am

Hi John,

Thanks for jumping in again!
I did some more debugging (should have done this more thorough before asking questions) and found out that this function is causing the issue (the one we resolved last time! remember?

//Auto add and update Title field:
  function my_post_title_updater( $post_id ) {

  $my_post = array();
  $my_post['ID'] = $post_id;
  if ( get_post_type() == 'fotoslider' || get_post_type() == 'diensten' || get_post_type() == 'portfolio' || get_post_type() == 'partners') {
    $my_post['post_title'] = get_field('kop');
  }

  //Unhook function to prevent infitnite looping
  remove_filter('acf/save_post', 'my_post_title_updater', 20);

  // Update the post into the database
  wp_update_post( $my_post );

  //Rehook function to prevent infitnite looping
  add_filter('acf/save_post', 'my_post_title_updater', 20, 3);

  }

  // run after ACF saves the $_POST['fields'] data
  add_action('acf/save_post', 'my_post_title_updater', 20);

any clue on why it is causing the terms not to sync?

Thanks!

• John Huebner

• September 24, 2015 at 5:03 am

It looks familiar.

I don’t see anything there that should cause terms not to be saved properly. I really like the way hooks work most of the time but there are other times they just create a mess. Let me think about it.

So if you remove this action everything works fine?

• boriskamp1991

• September 24, 2015 at 5:12 am

You’re right John! If I comment the function out, the whole sync works like it should…..
Thanks for picking your brain on this!

• John Huebner

• September 24, 2015 at 6:12 am

But it shouldn’t be, which is why I’m confused, unless there is something more going on, like updating a post that shouldn’t be updated.

What if you did something like:

  
  //Auto add and update Title field:
  function my_post_title_updater( $post_id ) {
    
    $post_types = array(
      'fotoslider',
      'diensten',
      'portfolio',
      'partners'
    );
    $post_type = get_post_type($post_id);
    if (!in_array($post_type, $post_types)) {
      // don't do anything 
      // if this is not one 
      // of the post types
      // we want to change
      return;
    }

    $my_post = array();
    $my_post['ID'] = $post_id;
    $my_post['post_title'] = get_field('kop');
  
    //Unhook function to prevent infitnite looping
    remove_filter('acf/save_post', 'my_post_title_updater', 20);
  
    // Update the post into the database
    wp_update_post( $my_post );
  
    //Rehook function to prevent infitnite looping
    add_filter('acf/save_post', 'my_post_title_updater', 20, 3);
  }

  // run after ACF saves the $_POST['fields'] data
  add_action('acf/save_post', 'my_post_title_updater', 20);
  

• boriskamp1991

• September 25, 2015 at 1:04 am

True!

Unfortunately it does not work either with your edited function.

One more detail, it loads the terms correctly to the ACF tax field, just not the other way – it does not update the terms with the acf field values

• John Huebner

• September 25, 2015 at 10:16 pm

Maybe this is a bug that’s recently cropped up on front end forms, but I tend not to think that because you say it works fine when you remove this functions.

The only thing that I can think of now is that the call to wp_update_post() is triggering hooks that are somehow causing this issue.

Have you tried opening a support ticket http://support.advancedcustomfields.com/new-ticket/

• boriskamp1991

• November 16, 2015 at 1:39 am

Hi John,

I opened a ticket a while ago and still have no answer from them. any clues?

• John Huebner

• November 16, 2015 at 2:12 am

I’m not associated with the support ticket system. I just know that it’s a more direct route to the developer or those that can better help with direct support. Unfortunately, since I cannot recreate the problem that you’re having I can’t really help you. There really isn’t anything in the function you posted above that should keep a taxonomy field from saving on a front end acf_form.