Reply To: ACF Load Post – Flexible Content – Not showing up on front end until manual save

• jpequens

• May 20, 2020 at 11:37 pm

Just as a follow-up. Was able to create a new post on a user registration and pre-pop the flexible layout and data with update field. Here is the code I added to my functions.php file for any one else looking:

function create_new_user_posts($user_id){
// Create new post.
    $post_data = array(
    'post_title' => 'New Post Title',
    'post_type' => 'Custom Post Name',
    'post_status' => 'publish',
    'post_author' => $user_id,
    );
    //Insert the post into the database
    $post_id = wp_insert_post( $post_data );

    // Save a flexible content field value.
    $field_key = "field_5eb8736d02e62";
    $value = array(
        array(
        'acf_fc_layout' => 'layout_1',
        'field_5eb873ab02e63' => 'This is what I want the field to say'
        ),
        array(
        'acf_fc_layout' => 'layout_2',
        'field_5eb8743702e68' => 'Starting 2 text'
        )
    );
    update_field( $field_key, $value, $post_id);
}
add_action('user_register','create_new_user_posts');

Thank you for your help. Pushed me in the right direction.