Yes this is still wanted. Recently had another large batch of websites lose their license keys. The custom code I previously used to reapply license keys stopped working. I assume something changed with the way ACF Pro activate license keys. I was able to get working by updating the custom code to match the code within ACF Pro itself.
// Check if ACF is running
if ( is_plugin_active( 'advanced-custom-fields-pro/acf.php' ) ) {
// Loads ACF plugin
include_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-content/plugins/advanced-custom-fields-pro/acf.php');
// connect
$post = array(
'acf_license' => "ACF_PRO_KEY",
'acf_version' => acf_get_setting('version'),
'wp_name' => get_bloginfo('name'),
'wp_url' => home_url(),
'wp_version' => get_bloginfo('version'),
'wp_language' => get_bloginfo('language'),
'wp_timezone' => get_option('timezone_string'),
);
// connect
$response = acf_updates()->request('v2/plugins/activate?p=pro', $post);
// ensure response is expected JSON array (not string)
if( is_string($response) ) {
$response = new WP_Error( 'server_error', esc_html($response) );
}
// success
if( $response['status'] == 1 ) {
acf_pro_update_license( $response['license'] ); // update license
}
echo $response['message']; // show message
}
Also wrote some code to make this automatically update after using a WP-CLI search-replace command. That’s typically where I’m seeing the license keys drop. https://anchor.host/2017/05/16/preloading-advanced-custom-fields-pro-license-key/
