Reply To: Pre-populating post object field no longer works, while other fields do

• pekka

• August 22, 2018 at 12:25 am

OK – not sure why, but ditching add_post_meta() / update_post_meta() in favour of ACF’s own update_field appears to work fine!

add_action( 'load-post-new.php', 'wpse8650_post_new' );

function wpse8650_post_new()
{ 
	add_action( 'wp_insert_post', 'wpse8650_wp_insert_post_default' );
}

function wpse8650_wp_insert_post_default( $post_id )
{

	if ($_REQUEST["new_post_prefill"] == "yes")
	{
          
           update_field('type', "Short conversation",  $post_id );
      
   	   update_field( 'customer', "Imaginary customer name",  $post_id  ); 
       
	   update_field('parent_post', 1234,  $post_id ); 
	   
    }

}