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Dynamically fill a custom field with publish date

  • Hi,

    I created a custom field and I want him to dynamically fill the publish post date when I publish a post.

    Example :
    If I publish a post today, I want when the action of publishing is done to find 30/09/2020 in my custom field
    If I schedule my post for tomorrow then I want to find tomorrow 01/10/2020 in my custom field.
    Same idea if I publish my article at an earlier date.

    I already tried this :

    add_action('acf/save_post', 'my_acf_save_post');
    function my_acf_save_post( $post_id ) { 
        $value = get_the_date();
        update_field('name_of_my_custom_field', $value, $post_id);
    }

    But I always get today’s date and not the real published date.

    One other thing, I don’t want my custom field to update when I will update my post in the future. So I thought about a condition like : IF my custom field is not empty THEN i do nothing but I am not able to do it.

    Any ideas ?

    Thanks by advance and sorry for my poor english.

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