Reply To: Post status as protected with ACF Field

• John Huebner

• July 25, 2021 at 3:41 pm

There is not option for this built into acf.

You would need to create your own fields and then create an acf/save_post filter to update the post status and set the password.

add_filter('acf/save_post', 'set_password_from_acf', 20);
function set_password_from_acf($post_id) {
  $post = get_post($post_id);
  $post->post_password = get_field('pasword_field', $post_id);
  remove_filter('acf/save_post', 'set_password_from_acf', 20);
  wp_update_post($post);
  add_filter('acf/save_post', 'set_password_from_acf', 20);
}