Update Field via Quick Edit

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  • huwrowlands

  • December 18, 2021 at 10:01 am

  Hi,

  I have a custom post type that has an expiry date custom field. This field is automatically populated by the published date of the post. When I update the published date on the post edit screen, the date updates fine.

  But when updating the published date within the Quick Edit screen, the expiry date does not update.

  /**
   * Update the expiry date custom field in the backend.
   */
  add_filter('save_post', 'add_expiry_date');
  function add_expiry_date($post_id) {
  	
  	$published_date = get_the_date( 'm/d/Y', get_the_ID() );
  	$expiry_date    = date( 'm/d/Y', strtotime( '+2 days', strtotime($published_date) ) );
  	
  	update_field( 'listing_expiry_date', $expiry_date, $post_id );
  }

  Any help would be most appreciative.

  Thanks
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  • John Huebner

  • April 15, 2022 at 1:34 pm

  The save_post action should fire during quick edit as well as when editing the post.

  The only issue I can see with the above code is the date format and I don’t see how this can work when editing the post at all.

  The date format for update_field should always by “Ymd”.

  Another issue could be that the field does not already have a value. In this case you must use the field key and not the field name.