Reply To: Copy taxonomy values to a custom fields

• John Huebner

• February 1, 2022 at 3:02 pm

Yes, something like that could work, but it depends on how many posts you have.

add_action('acf/init', 'update_post_year_field');
update_post_year_field() {
  $args = array(
    'post_type' => 'your-post-type',
    'post_status' =>'any',
    'posts_per_page' => -1,
    'meta_query' => array(
      'relation' => 'OR',
      array(
        'key' => 'year'
        'compare' =>'NOT EXISTS'
      ),
      array(
        'key' => 'year'
        'value' => '',
        'compare' =>'='
      )
    )
  );
  $query = new WP_Query($args);
  if (count($query->posts)) {
    foreach ($query->posts as $post) {
      $terms = wp_get_post_terms($post->ID, 'your-taxonomy');
      if (!empty($terms)) {
        // use the field key here, not the field name
        update_field('field_key', get_field('item_year', $term[0]), $post->ID);
      }
    }
  }
}

If you have a lot of posts it may timeout the loading of your site. This is why the query is looking for the field not being set or has an empty value. The number of posts returned should be reduced each time and eventually it will complete and then you can remove the filter.

But you will also need to create an acf/save_post filter to update this field when a new post is created or a post is updated.