Gutenberg blocks – ACF does not save if key has "-" in value

• Stagger Lee

• September 11, 2020 at 6:07 pm

I just made a very, in name, unique field to be sure problem is real.

All fields with one word in key (no -) save values without problems. But those with multiple words not. No matter if I reduced field Name to one word.

For instance this field (never used before, just to be sure) is not saving:

some-test-field

ACF PRO is updated to latest, WP latest.

• Stagger Lee

• September 11, 2020 at 6:09 pm

Can you please just correct topic title, thanks.

• Stagger Lee

• September 11, 2020 at 6:33 pm

Tipically. Snippet to prevent duplicate slugs makes it.

function bhrs_save_post_callback( $post_ID, $post, $update ) {
    if (in_array($postarr['post_type'], array('post', 'page', 'chronik', 'mitglied', 'galerie', 'vorstand', 'event')) &&
!in_array($data['post_status'], array('publish', 'draft', 'pending', 'auto-draft', 'future', 'private', 'trash')))

        return;
    // unhook this function to prevent infinite looping
    remove_action( 'save_post', 'bhrs_save_post_callback', 10, 3 );
    // update the post slug (WP handles unique post slug)
    wp_update_post( array(
        'ID' => $post_ID,
        'post_name' => ''
    ));
    // re-hook this function
    add_action( 'save_post', 'bhrs_save_post_callback', 10, 3 );
}
add_action( 'save_post', 'bhrs_save_post_callback', 10, 3 );

This one leave ACF slugs alone:

// Force slug auto generate
function myplugin_update_slug( $data, $postarr ) {
if (in_array($postarr['post_type'], array('post', 'page', 'chronik', 'mitglied', 'galerie', 'vorstand', 'event')) &&
!in_array($data['post_status'], array('publish', 'draft', 'pending', 'auto-draft', 'future', 'private', 'trash'))) {
$data['post_name'] = sanitize_title( $data['post_title'] );
}
return $data;
}
add_filter( 'wp_insert_post_data', 'myplugin_update_slug', 9, 2 );