Reply To: Saving post meta from ACF directly into DB Doesn't work without update press.

• newbook

• May 7, 2020 at 9:20 am

For others i worked out the solution.

So essentially you use the update_field, then update_post.

Example:

// Flexible element
$fc_key = "field_key_for_flexible_content";

// build the rows to insert

$fc_rows = array(
  array(
            'field_key_for_field_inside_flexible_layout' => '',
            'acf_fc_layout' => 'name_of_layout_inside_flexible_item'
        ),
  array(
            'field_key_for_field_inside_flexible_layout' => '',
            'acf_fc_layout' => 'name_of_layout_inside_flexible_item'
        ),
);

// run the update
update_field( $fc_key, $fc_rows, $post_id );

// update
wp_update_post( array (
  'ID' => $post_id,
));