Is the Field Key of an ACF custom field the same as the WP Custom Field K

• jrstaatsiii

• July 18, 2013 at 10:02 am

I am using Yoast’s video seo plugin, and it offers the ability to look for video content in custom fields. If you take a look at the screenshot, you can see I am using the field key for this…is equivalent to the WP field key?

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s97/sh/5180d646-8e8a-4161-8474-f1f83a1c1962/7b1d72f08057eac0b0bd06bffcfdeafa

• Elliot

• July 18, 2013 at 3:23 pm

Hi @jrstaatsiii

For each custom field value saved on a post (video), ACF will save 2 records:

1. The value: This postmeta entry will use the field_name (video) and the value will be the field’s value (video url)
2. The reference field: This postmeta entry will use the field_name with a prefix (_video) and the value iwll be the field’s key (field_12353)

I think you should change your Yoast’s value to ‘video’, or what ever the field name is.

Cheers
Elliot

• jrstaatsiii

• July 23, 2013 at 5:20 am

yup that worked. thank you. -Rich