Reply To: update_sub_field doing nothing, with or without keys.

• schnoodle

• March 27, 2018 at 6:14 am

@graphix,

Thanks for some pointers, but unfortunately this isn’t working for me. I’m curious if it’s because I’m using a Flexible Content Type vs a Repeater?

I’m able to get the saving to work via WordPress’ update_post_meta function, just using

    $label = 'content_type_'.$this_count.'_label_label';
    $subtitle = 'content_type_'.$this_count.'_label_subtitle';
    update_post_meta( $post_id, $label, $the_content['label']);

However, I worry that when new content types and repeaters are added in this manner, they may not be ‘registered’ with ACF. I feel I’m missing something important in the structure of my code, as it seems to work for everyone but me!

From some fiddling, get_fields actually shows me that there is a ‘new’ field added in for each of the groups I updated, e.g.

//before updating label in group label
content_type_label_label => ''

becomes

//after updating label in group label
content_type_label_0_label => 'test',
content_type_label_label => ''

Or something to that effect.