Post Object Field – Post Status Transitions “lag”

• adrocodes

• February 17, 2024 at 3:01 am

I have a Post Object field that allows for multiple links to 1 custom post type.

I’ve added some actions to watch for status transitions using this pattern.

During this transition I am sending some data over to Algolia, I’ve noticed however, that I need to click “Update” twice for the changes made to my Post Object field to update properly in Algolia. Other fields, Text, Gallery, Textarea updates immediately.

A shorted code snippet of what I am doing below;

add_action('publish_product', 'on_product_publish', 10, 2);

function on_product_publish($ID, WP_Post $product)
{
  $tags = get_field('product-tags', $ID);

  $record = array();

  if ($tags) {
    $record["tags"] = array_map(function (WP_Post $tag) {
      return $tag->post_title;
    }, $tags);
  }

  // Do the indexing here
}

Not sure why this field specifically has this “lag” when using this transition. Maybe using get_field for this field type isn’t the best idea? I’ve also tried changing the return type from Post Object to Post ID but that didn’t seem to make a difference.

Any help is appreciated.