How to use user field?

• nickolay

• August 19, 2020 at 10:15 pm

Hello,

I am totally new to wordpress and acf and I’m trying to use a user field in a post to show the author of the post. I tried to programatically add the post author id as a meta attribute in the wp_postmeta table in the folowing three ways:

update_field('video_author', get_current_user_id(), $post_id);
update_field('_video_author', get_current_user_id(), $post_id);
update_field('field_59c383916102a', get_current_user_id(), $post_id); 

Neither of these worked. The post author is not shown:

This is the result in wp_postmeta table:

What am I doing wrong?

Also when I click the user field no users are listed. I presume acf looks for users in either “wp_users” or “users” table, both of which contain records. However, this is shown:

Thanks in advance