I’ve been using ACF for a few years on a website but recently I’ve been having issues with saving custom field data on new posts. The only way I can get the data to save is to login to the website’s database and add it manually.
The strange thing is that it’s only an issue on certain fields within the post type. This is not a new field group either. I’ve been posting data to this field group with no issues ever since I installed the plugin on the website.
For example, one of the Field Groups that has issues on the website is for Recipes. Included in this particular Field Group for recipes is a custom field for recipe Difficulty(select), Serving Size(text), Prep Time(text), Cook Time(text), Ingredients(Wysiwyg Editor), and Directions (Wsyiwyg Editor).
Whenever I try to add a new recipe and fill in all of the custom fields, only the Serving Size(text) and Directions (Wsyiwyg Editor) field data will save to the database upon publishing. All of the other fields go blank and no data for those fields is saved to the database. Like I said earlier, the only way I can get those fields to work is to go into the database and add the field data manually.
I’ve even tried deactivating all the installed plugins and reverting the theme back to the default WordPress theme, Twenty Thirteen, and then reactivating only the ACF plugin and it still didn’t work.
Any idea what could be going on here?
Current setup:
WordPress 3.7.1
Advanced Custom Fields 4.3.1
PHP Version 5.4.13
MySQL Version 5.5.30