This is probably me doing something fundamentally wrong but I just cant see why this code isn’t working
// Update current post with new preview link
$postInfo = array(
'field_5cf1142a132e8' => $url,
'ID' => $postID
);
$id = wp_update_post($postInfo);
The code runs just after a CURL call that returns the $url – Ive verified everything there’s no errors returned from wp_update_post, no console errors etc, it seems to execute fine but the $url value doesn’t get updated on the post with $postID. Ive tried using the field key and field name but neither work.
Please help an old guy who’s going mad !!
Your first error is that when updating post meta using wp_update_post() your meta values need to be in a nested array, example: (see https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_insert_post/)
// Update current post with new preview link
$postInfo = array(
'meta_input' => array(
'field_5cf1142a132e8' => $url
),
'ID' => $postID
);
your second issue is that when updating fields in this manner you’d need to update 2 fields. One using the field name that holds the value and the second is the field key reference. The meta_key of this other field is "_{$field_name}" and the value of this field is the field key of the field you are updating.
Fantastic, as always, thank you so much for your help John – its working perfectly and my sanity has been (mostly) restored!
