Fields not saved properly with wp_insert_user

• kmaar

• May 22, 2014 at 4:35 am

I’ve made a custom user signup form that creates a wp user with wp_insert_user.

Here’s what I have in my functions file:

	$userdata = array(
	    'first_name'	=> $_POST['userName'],
	    'user_login'        => $user_name,
	    'user_pass'		=> $random_password,
	    'user_email' 	=> $user_email,
	    'role'		=> 'event_participant'
	);

	$user_id = wp_insert_user( $userdata );

	if( !is_wp_error($user_id) ) {

			update_field('wpu_vat', $_POST['userVAT'], 'user_'.$user_id);
			update_field('wpu_company_name', $_POST['userCompany'], 'user_'.$user_id);
			update_field('wpu_title', $_POST['userTitle'], 'user_'.$user_id);
			update_field('wpu_phone', $_POST['userPhone'], 'user_'.$user_id);
} else...

The values are inserted correctly but won’t show in the frontend unless I click the save button on the user page in wp. What’s going on here? Do I call the wp save user function after updating acf’s?