Turned out it was a plugin causing it to break! Called ‘Advanced Floating Content’ in case anybody else runs into this issue!
It worked! I had no idea this function existed… do you mean a script in ACF or in WP?
No that’s fine, thanks for replying, i appreciate it 🙂
I think the process of this working, will be very useful for me moving forward, as i want to auto populate some fields etc, so gonna see just how it works for ‘options page’ fields.
For others i worked out the solution.
So essentially you use the update_field, then update_post.
Example:
// Flexible element
$fc_key = "field_key_for_flexible_content";
// build the rows to insert
$fc_rows = array(
array(
'field_key_for_field_inside_flexible_layout' => '',
'acf_fc_layout' => 'name_of_layout_inside_flexible_item'
),
array(
'field_key_for_field_inside_flexible_layout' => '',
'acf_fc_layout' => 'name_of_layout_inside_flexible_item'
),
);
// run the update
update_field( $fc_key, $fc_rows, $post_id );
// update
wp_update_post( array (
'ID' => $post_id,
));
I’ve created a plugin which does a ‘fresh sync’ from an API, which destroys the old posts, and re-creates them. I then want to make a generic structure to be placed back in by default.
