Hook after save

• mwp

• February 8, 2017 at 9:20 pm

Hi.

I have a custom post type with an ACF group and I need to update some data in the database after insert, update or delete the custom post.

How is it better to do this, with the hook do_action(‘save_post_postype’ …) or with the filter add_filter(‘acf/pre_save_post’…)?

Thanks for your help…

• John Huebner

• February 8, 2017 at 11:41 pm

acf/pre_save_post only runs on the front end of the site for acf_form().

The best hook to run after ACF saves data is acf/save_post with a priority > 10.

But this will not work when deleting posts. For deleting posts you’ll need to rely on some WP hook, but I don’t know what that would be.

• mwp

• February 9, 2017 at 12:16 am

you’re right, acf/pre_save_post only runs on the front end.

There are lots of WP hooks for this, but I’ve done tests and none covers all possibilities.

Oddly enough, the only one that works really well is
add_filter(‘post_updated_messages’,’ my_function’);

This is triggered “always”, except in delete post, that have to use
add_action(‘delete_post’, ‘codex_sync’, 10);

I do not know if there is a better option

Thanks for your help

• John Huebner

• February 9, 2017 at 12:22 am

acf/save_post is run on any page that has acf fields for either adding or updating a post. It is dependable, but like I said, is not called when deleting a post.