Reply To: Programmatically inserting field with update_field() does not at _field_key meta

• John Huebner

• November 3, 2017 at 6:49 am

You can insert the value correctly by using the field key

update_field( 'field_59c383916102a', $some_html, $some_new_post_id );

This is explained in the documentation https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/update_field/