Reply To: get_field() doesn't return a value when fields are created with update_field()

• John Huebner

• February 2, 2016 at 1:08 pm

The problem is that the post and the custom fields associated with the post do not exist yet so update_field() is not able to set the field key properly. You also can’t get the field object using the field name for the same reason.

I think that the documentation explains it all pretty well. http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/update_field/

All you really need to do is edit

$customFields = [...] // Associative array of field's names and values

to use field keys instead of field names.