Data stored in the database

• harry84

• May 1, 2018 at 8:39 pm

Hi,

I wanted to better understand the data saved in the table _postmeta

I have a field called “name”.
Why in the database I always have 2 records, for example:

meta_key: name – meta_value: Harry
meta_key: _name – meta_value: field_5ae479557b812

What would be field_5ae479557b812?

Thanks!

• John Huebner

• May 2, 2018 at 9:38 pm

That is the field key reference. ACF uses that to get the settings for the field so it knows what to do with the value stored for the field in the DB.