Repeater fields only update after twice clicks on update button

• pmichelazzo

• August 11, 2021 at 2:40 am

Hello there,

I’m facing a strange situation. I have a cpt firing a save_post action to update some data. This cpt has a repeater field with some “regular fields”.

This repeater just update the data (add a new element inside the array) if I click twice on the Publish/Update button. On the first click, the data is stored inside of this ctp but I cannot get the values from the repeater updated.

Here a code example:

function auto_ctp($post_id, $post, $update) {
  $fields = get_fields($post_id);
  // Here, the var is empty on the first click
  // but filled on the update or on the second click
  var_dump($fields);
  if (wp_is_post_revision($post_id)) {
    return;
  }
  else {
    remove_action('save_post_ctp', 'auto_ctp');
    // execute some update code
    // load the action again
    add_action('save_post_ctp', 'auto_ctp', 10, 3);
  }
}
add_action('save_post_ctp', 'auto_ctp', 10, 3);

I’m sure that I missed some hook to get the full data but, after a search on the documentation, I didn’t see anything that helps me.

Any idea where is the mistake on this logic?

Thanks a lot

• John Huebner

• August 11, 2021 at 9:01 am

when this hook fires save_post_ctp ACF has not yet saved data. This hook is fired before ACF saves anything. You need to use the acf/save_post hook or you need to use the WP “save_post” hook with a priority > 10.

If you want to get data before ACF has saved values then you need to look in $_POST['acf']

• pmichelazzo

• August 11, 2021 at 3:28 pm

Gotcha!
The acf/save_post solved my problem.

Thanks a lot!