acf_update_field – Passing the value to the post

• venenum

• July 13, 2017 at 10:11 am

I created a field (not acf) in the user profile. The field is called “genere”, and I have another field in the post created with ACF called the same “genere”, but it is invoked in my function by the $field_key.

I can now pass this usermeta to the author’s post to a acf_field with acf_update_field but only after I click on “Update User” in edit-user.php.

There is only one post per author, At most two by mistake. So when I click on “Update User” in user-edit.php, the author post also updates. I would like every usermeta of “genere” field value to pass automatically to the author’s post already created (in my theme by default each user has a post).

Another my previous function creates the author’s post when this user is created. When I update the user, his post already exists. So for future author’s posts I do not need solutions because by updating the profile, the field value passes well and works. The problem is only for the posts already created.

There are 2500 users and I would need to pass the value to the post without manually updating the user-edit.php page.

This is my code in the file functions.php

function save_acf($user_id)
  {
    global $post;
    $args = array(
   'author' =>  $user_id,
    );
   $myposts = get_posts( $args );
   foreach( $myposts as $post ) :
    setup_postdata($post);
    $numero = $post->ID;
   endforeach; 

 if( isset($_POST['genere']) ) { 
    $post_id = $numero ;
    $field_key = "field_5941b968b5ad6";
    $value =  sanitize_text_field( $_POST['genere'] ) ;
  update_field( $field_key, $value, $post_id );}
}

add_action( 'user_register', 'save_acf');
add_action( 'personal_options_update', 'save_acf' );
add_action( 'edit_user_profile_update', 'save_acf' );

Probably the actions user_register and personal_options_update are no influence
Best regards

• venenum

• July 14, 2017 at 9:27 pm

Fixed. For past posts, the value is passed by this bulk action.

add_filter( 'bulk_actions-edit-post', 'register_my_bulk_actions2' );
 function register_my_bulk_actions2($post_ids) {
    global $wpdb;
      $users = $wpdb->get_results( "SELECT user_id FROM $wpdb->usermeta WHERE meta_key = 'genere'AND meta_value = 'Maschio' " );
    foreach ( $users as $a ) {
        $author_ids[] = $a->user_id;
    }

   $args = array( 'posts_per_page' => -1 ,  'author__in' =>  $author_ids, );
   $myposts = get_posts( $args );
   foreach( $myposts as $post ) :
     $numero = $post->ID;
     update_post_meta( $numero, 'genere', 'Maschio' );
   endforeach; 
  }