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Migrate content from ACFs to the_content

  • Hello There,

    Could anyone help me, please?

    I have 5 ACF in every post, which split content in 5 chapters (chapter_1, chapter_2 and so on). Practically I’d like to take the content from the fields and move it into the post section keeping formatting and the rest. A solution would be to do it by hand but 400 posts would take quite a while. Is there a way to automate this? There is a similar topic in the forum with this code but I can’t seem to make it work. It only change the latest post before spitting an error.

    <?php
    
    global $post;
    $args = array( 
    	'post_type' => 'YOURCUSTOMPOSTTYPE', 
    	'posts_per_page' => -1,
    	'post_status' => 'any'
    );
    
    $myposts = get_posts( $args );
    foreach ( $myposts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post );
    
    	$custom_field_raw = get_the_content().get_field('YOURCUSTOMFIELD');
    	$custom_field_text_only = wp_strip_all_tags($custom_field_raw);
    
    	$my_post = array(
    		'ID'           => get_the_ID(),
    		'post_content' => $custom_field_raw // use $custom_field_raw if you want to keep any HTML formatting
    	);
    
    	wp_update_post( $my_post );
    
    endforeach; 
    wp_reset_postdata();
    
    ?>
  • all of the references to $my_post in your loop should be $post

  • Ok, I swapped $my_post for $post as advised and now the content is copied over but in 2-3 instances. It’s like if the loop happens multiple times before settling.

    The code looks like this now:

    <?php
    global $post;
    $args = array( 
    	'post_type' => 'post', 
    	'posts_per_page' => -1,
    	'post_status' => 'any'
    );
    
    $myposts = get_posts( $args );
    foreach ( $myposts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post );
    
    	$custom_field_raw = get_the_content().get_field('chapter_1');
    	$custom_field_text_only = wp_strip_all_tags($custom_field_raw);
    
    	$post = array(
    		'ID'           => get_the_ID(),
    		'post_content' => $custom_field_raw
    	);
    
    	wp_update_post( $post );
    
    endforeach; 
    wp_reset_postdata();

    Ideally I’d need to move all chapters at once and make sure the loop doesn’t create multiple instances of every field. Could you help, please?

    THANK YOU!

    EDIT:
    I’m using this to add PHP to the page: https://wordpress.org/plugins/insert-php-code-snippet/

  • I don’t see anything in the code that would cause it to create multiple instances of a posts. It may have something to do with the plugin but don’t know why that would cause it either.

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