Duplicate Group Fields on Edit Post/Page

• thedriveconference

• September 18, 2014 at 5:34 am

After the upgrade to ACF 5 Pro, I now have duplicate Group Field blocks on each edit page/post page on the admin console. I have included a screenshot for reference.

On the ACF Admin page, I only have 1 of each field group listed (as expected).

Only the bottom of the 2 boxes is savable – when I add a new row to the top box and update the post/page, nothing is saved. However, when I add a new row to the bottom box, the content is saved and both boxes are updated with the new content.

Any ideas?

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• thedriveconference

• September 18, 2014 at 6:09 am

I lied. When I go to edit a Field Group, all my values are duplicated there as well. I will read around and see if anyone else found a solution.

• Elliot

• September 18, 2014 at 10:58 am

Hi @thedriveconference

Is there any chance you ran the DB upgrade twice?
ie. upgrade to 5, rollback to 4, upgrade to 5 again?

This would explain why the field’s have been duplicated and I have added a fix for this in the recent 4.3.9 update which will prevent this issue

• mattbeck

• September 26, 2014 at 6:16 am

@thedriveconference,

Did you get sorted? If so, what was the fix?

I’ve got almost the exact same issue:
http://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/duplicated-fields-in-page-editor/

• robnero

• October 1, 2014 at 5:25 am

I am having the same issue.

I activated the Pro plugin, then deactivated the previous plugin with all the add-ons, then I updated my database. Now I have duplicate fields on all edit screens. I’m not using the JSON folder.

Any luck on fixing?

• Elliot

• October 1, 2014 at 12:43 pm

Hi @robnero

When editing your field groups, can you see duplicated field groups?
When you edit a field group, can you see duplicate fields?

Can you simply remove the duplicated field groups/fields?

• robnero

• October 1, 2014 at 1:06 pm

I’m afraid I already backed out the upgrade and edits. I’m almost sure there were not duplicate field groups. The fields were replicated at least 4-6 times too. I remember seeing many duplicate images on screen, when there should have only been one, and not seeing many field groups. My first thought was to delete the field groups, but I don’t think there were duplicates, if my memory is right.

• hoppy

• October 18, 2014 at 12:10 pm

I am having the same issue, but after upgradingd to free 4.3.9. I was able to repeat the bug on two separate instances by simply upgrading. The duplicated fields were not savable.
I did found the duplicated groups under Field Groups admin, and deleting the latter seemingly solved the issue.

• shshaw

• October 22, 2014 at 9:29 am

For others having this issue: I was able to remove my duplicate fields by removing the duplicate json file from the /acf-json/ folder.