have to re-publish post after a commit

• moabi

• June 16, 2015 at 5:12 pm

Hi Elliot,

after I (git) commit my theme with the php acf export in it, acf values are disappearing from the front (they stay visible in the back office)

I have to go thrue the posts, and publish them again, in order to see the custom fields values in the front…

Any idea how to fix that ?

Best

• Jonathan

• June 17, 2015 at 5:41 am

Hi @moabi

You say that the fields and values still exist in admin while not appearing in your theme. Could you do a check right after you encounter this to see wether the values actually exist in the wp_postmeta table for the posts affected.

• moabi

• June 17, 2015 at 5:25 pm

apparently yes they’re still in the wp_postmeta table with the good post ID,
when I re-publish the post, you can see in the database that the missing values are added (the new values I added to the flexible field)
So maybe the field won’t be printed until all values are defined ? since i’ve added new values and I didn’t defined them in the back-office (they are not mandatory though…)
Thank you for your help

• moabi

• June 23, 2015 at 5:19 am

this still happens,
I have to republish the post, and everything is ok, but I’m afraid if I have more then 20 or 100 post, I won’t be really enjoying to re-publish everything ! and for production, this is not very nice 🙂
do you have any idea how to fix this or am I doing something wrong here, did you reproduce the bug ?
Best

• Jonathan

• June 24, 2015 at 3:29 am

Hi @moabi

I’m not 100% I am completely understanding what you’re experiencing.

So you have a flexible field in which you’ve added new fields and those are not saving their values on the prod site when all fields are loaded through PHP?

• moabi

• June 24, 2015 at 3:48 am

Hi,
workflow :
=> dev : localhost – acf fields stored in php file
=> Prod : http url – updated with git, same configuration

Process :
=> I add acf fields to a group of field which are assigned to pages (flexible or not)
=> I update the php file with acf fields to do so
=> I commit to Production

Result :
some acf fields appears to be missing, like there is no value inside
But in the database, there are all values (except the new one I just added)

After result :
>> I update my page (without touching anything or filling the new acf fields)
>> The database updates and add the new acf values in wp_postmeta table (and only the new ones)
>> on page reload, the page is like before with all the fields

Hope it’s clear enough, I can help in any way, please let me know,

Best

• moabi

• August 31, 2015 at 7:59 pm

Apparently,
my mistake was to DUPLICATE fields :
as i had to quite similar group of fields, I duplicated them, therefore, name was the same but not the key,
it explains why I could see them in the Back Office but not in the Front…