Reply To: acf/save_post question

• John Huebner

• April 12, 2016 at 10:16 am

In response to the OP. In order to use acf/save_post and tell the difference between a new post and a post that’s being updated, you’ll need some other flag or marker that you can check prior to copying the information from the other post. For example:

function my_acf_save_post($post_id) {
  if (get_post_type($post_id) != 'my-post-type') {
    return;
  }
  if (get_post_meta($post_id, 'my-already-copied-flag', true) {
    // this one is already done
    return;
  }
  // copy the values you want to copy
  // end with updating the flag field
  update_post_meta($post_id, 'my-already-copied-flag', 1);
}