Reply To: Migrating from repeater field to flexible content field

• James

• August 1, 2016 at 4:39 pm

Hi @kyon147

If you have the right code, I believe it won’t be hard. You can loop through the posts and use the update_field() function to update the new flexible content like this:

$post_id = 99;
$flex_field_key = "field_123456789";

// Get the repeater values
$repeater = get_field('repeater');

// Create an array to store the new flexible values
$flexible = array();

// Loop through the repeater 
foreach( $repeater as $row ){

    // Set the values
    $flexible[] = array(
        "flex_sub_field_1" => $row['repeater_sub_field_1'],
        "flex_sub_field_2" => $row['repeater_sub_field_2'],
        "acf_fc_layout" => "layout_1_name"
    );

}

// Update the new flexible field
update_field( $flex_field_key, $flexible, $post_id );

After the repeater field is copied correctly, you can delete it.

Please don’t forget to backup your site and database first in case something bad happens.

I hope this helps 🙂