Thanks Josh – much appreciated!
There was a bit of a facepalm moment on this end, but very grateful for the feedback.
Thanks @hube2
We did manage to identify the issue. An editorial request was to make the Excerpt field mandatory, which was causing issues with the acf-field post_type saves via the wp_insert_post_data filter. Once we located that and put an exclusion there for this post_type regular service resumed.
It was definitely a weird one, and I appreciate the advice. Originally I had checked all save_post filters, it was a colleague who found it in the end.
Thanks John.
Testing with another theme shows that this is certainly specific to the current one. Digging deeper I can see that the fields are being imported into the database, but any Tab or Message field is set to “Draft”.
I took a look at the ACF Import scripts; and don’t see any obvious filter that I should be checking the theme scripts for conflicts against. You say there are too many to mention – can you suggest some of the more obvious ones?
Thanks John, much appreciated!
I’ll check the WordPress Coding Standards for “ignore” rules for this kind of false positive error reporting.