Reply To: Must update post twice to get values passed

• John Huebner

• October 29, 2015 at 4:14 am

That’s what’s in my reply above.

The problem is that the update_value fires before that value is saved to the database.

This means that when you do get_field to get the value you are getting the value it was from the previous update. If it’s a new post then you get nothing, if you change the date you will get the previous date.

The hook passes the new value as $value so you should be using that for the value to update the title

function my_acf_update_value( $value, $post_id, $field ) {
	
        // ** change this line
	$date = strtotime($value);

	$formatted_date = date('d F Y', $date);
                $new_title = $formatted_date;

	// update post
	
	$my_post = array(
	'ID'           => $post_id,
	'post_title' => $new_title,
	'post_type' => 'usa',
	'post_name' => $new_slug
	);
	
	// Update the post into the database
	wp_update_post( $my_post );
	return $value;
	}