Ah gotcha, I’m actually doing everything in the back end programmatically, I’m not using ACF on forms in the front end, so that’s probably why I haven’t run into this issue
I actually haven’t used flexible content fields yet, so I haven’t run into that issue for now. You’re saying that ACF saves stuff even if you directly store the fields yourself in the database?
Gotcha, with that info about child posts I’ve done some digging and found EXACTLY what I was looking for.
If I get the post_id of the field group post, and search in the wp_posts table for the posts whose parent_id is that post_id, I get the list of all the posts (fields) for that field group with their field name (post_excerpt) and field key (post_name).
This will allow me to programmatically get a list of all the fields and their corresponding field key for a specific field group, and use this info to save in the wp_postmeta table all the fields of a post in one call, which is my ultimate goal to speed things up.
Thanks so much for your help!
Wow this is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks so much!
Yes I tried using get_field_object(‘FIELD NAME’) and run into the problem you mention.
I was just wondering though, if those field keys appear in the admin when editing a field group, they MUST be somewhere in the database right? Maybe wp_options or wp_postmeta… I’ve dug around a bit without success unfortunately, do you know by any chance where those could be stored?
