@bocacommunity
Yes, you have a problem.
1 is that the other field is not supported and 2 is that if you add a field in ACF it will not have the same field key.
You can create a temporary function that runs and replaces the data, the problem is that it might time out. I might do something like this (back up your database first)
add_action('init', 'temp_replace_data_function') {
if (!is_admin()) {
// only run in the admin
return;
}
$args = array(
// just a sample
// do query to get all posts that have the old field
'post_type' => 'post type to update',
'posts_per_page' => -1,
'meta_query' => array(
array(
// only get posts that have a value for this field
// this way we can eliminate the ones we've already done
// if it times out, re-running will not redo posts we've already taken care of
'key' => 'old-field-name',
'compare' => 'EXISTS'
)
),
// other arguments as needed
);
$query = new WP_Query($args);
if ($query->have_posts()) {
global $post;
while ($query->have_posts()) {
$query->the_post();
$post_id = $post->ID;
// get the old value
// convert it from what the other plugin is storing to ACF format
// update the new ACF field (use the field key, not field name)
// sorry I can't be much more help here
// **** IMPORTANT ****
// delete the post meta for the old field name
// see not in the meta query above
delete_post_meta($post_id, 'old-field-name');
}
}
}
