Reply To: udpating Select2 initial choices to match database field

• sleary

• May 1, 2022 at 4:20 pm

Asking the question in public is always the fastest way to find the answer yourself. 😉 This needs some refinement, but setting the $field[‘default_value’] in a acf/load_field hooked function that runs after most other things is working:

add_filter('acf/load_field/type=taxonomy', function( $field ) {
     
	$screen = get_current_screen();
	if ( $screen->base = 'term' && $screen->parent_base == 'edit' ) {
		$term_id = (int) $_REQUEST['tag_ID'];
	    $field['default_value'] = get_term_meta( $term_id, $field['name'] );
	}
  
    return $field; 
    
}, 99, 1);