Flexible content layouts not showing up in duplicated post

• timjuedemann

• October 18, 2023 at 5:41 pm

Hello, I added the following code for duplicating custom post type posts to my functions.php:

https://rudrastyh.com/wordpress/duplicate-post.html

However, while the post_meta is correctly copied into the new post and static fields are being populated accordingly, the flexible content layouts won’t carry over and I’m presented with the Click the “Add Content” button below to start creating your layout message instead. The flexible content data is visible in the post_meta of the new post but the rows will neither show up on the Edit Post screen in the backend nor in the frontend. What am I doing wrong?

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks very much in advance.

• timjuedemann

• October 19, 2023 at 5:25 am

I solved my problem by adding the following line in the variable declaration block of the duplicate post function.

$flexible_content = get_field('YOUR_FLEXIBLE_CONTENT_FIELD', $post_id, false);

And then the following lines in the if ($post) condition block.

if ($flexible_content) {
    update_field('YOUR_FLEXIBLE_CONTENT_FIELD', $flexible_content, $new_post_id);
}