First of wow! Thanks for the super helpful and detailed explanation 🙂
Here’s what I’m not understanding:
If I go to one of my posts now, I see all the wp_metadata that I originally saved to the post with ACF sitting in the correct acf form fields.
When I manually click update, acf grabs the [field]wp_metadata, and as you described, passes it to the the acf function that updates the associated the acf field key to point to the metadata.
Am I right so far?
That function is tied to clicking the update button, and theres an add_action that triggers it.
So shouldn’t I be able to just call that action programmatically and pass the post object to it?
