Reply To: Migrate a custom field content to the_content

• Pike Milsner

• June 25, 2018 at 8:58 am

Blast from the past — @animalejourbano + anyone who needs it:

As @elliot mentioned, pop something like this somewhere (page template) where you can load it on the front end.

Required: Replace YOURCUSTOMPOSTTYPE and YOURCUSTOMFIELD

Optionally use $custom_field_raw if you’d like to maintain any formatting in your custom field.

<?php

global $post;
$args = array( 
	'post_type' => 'YOURCUSTOMPOSTTYPE', 
	'posts_per_page' => -1,
	'post_status' => 'any'
);

$myposts = get_posts( $args );
foreach ( $myposts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post );

	$custom_field_raw = get_field('YOURCUSTOMFIELD');
	$custom_field_text_only = wp_strip_all_tags($custom_field_raw);

	$my_post = array(
		'ID'           => get_the_ID(),
		'post_content' => $custom_field_text_only // use $custom_field_raw if you want to keep any HTML formatting
	);

	wp_update_post( $my_post );

endforeach; 
wp_reset_postdata();

?>

Hope this helps someone, someday 🙂

—
mp