Reply To: acf_form in wp-admin

• James

• October 13, 2016 at 12:19 pm

Hi @ryandorn

You need to get the posted data by using the $_POST global variable because ACF won’t be able to save it correctly. Maybe something like this:

// Action Hook
function my_save_form($cpt_id) {
    if(is_admin()){
        
        // Check the posted data
        if( isset($_POST['acf']['field_012345678901a']) ){
            
            // Set it to a variable
            $posted_data = $_POST['acf']['field_012345678901a'];
            
            // Update the custom field
            update_field('field_name', $posted_data, $cpt_id);
            
            // or use update_post_meta
            //update_post_meta($cpt_id, 'test', $posted_data);
        }
        
        
    }

};
add_action('acf/save_post', 'my_save_form', 20);

Hope this helps 🙂