update_field inside acf/update_value/name filter not working

• eafarooqi

• December 22, 2014 at 6:06 am

i am trying to update two custom field within the update_value filter but its not working. here is the code.

function my_acf_update_value( $value, $post_id, $field  )
{
  // post data to update
  $post_data = array(
      'ID'           => $post_id,
      'post_name' => $value,
      'post_date' => $value
  );

  // Update the post into the database
  wp_update_post( $post_data );
  
  // updating the other custom fields
  //update_post_meta($post_id, '_fs-backlink', $value);
  update_field('_fs-backlink', $value, $post_id);
  update_field('_fs-audio', str_replace('-', "", $value), $post_id);

  return $value;
}

add_filter('acf/update_value/name=_fs-date', 'my_acf_update_value', 10, 3);

first i have updated the post its working fine (wp_update_post). but then two other custom fields to be updated they are not getting updated. not even the update_post_meta function working here.

i have also tried with the field key but no luck. also tried to run the custom query instead of update_field still no luck.

• James

• June 9, 2015 at 10:47 pm

Hi @eafarooqi,

From your code, you are hooking into the update_value function for a specific field and thus you cannot use the update_field() function within this function.

I would suggest you hook into the filter for every field or possibly use the update field() function for the other fields on their own.