Hi John,
Thanks for your continued help with this.
ACF does not append the field group name to the field name when adding it to the database.
It’s prepend actually, but essentially the above doesn’t appear correct. Please see the attached screenshots of a sample ACF Config in ACF Pro latest, the text added via Edit Post screen, and the resulting database values.
Thanks,
Scott
Unfortunately this doesn’t actually seem solve it when I test it out.
If you create a field group settings
, add a field to it my_settings
, when saving via the UI you get a wp_postmeta of settings_my_settings
with a field key like field_59c383916102a
.
If you create it programatically via your recommendation:
update_field( 'field_59c383916102a', $some_html, $some_new_post_id );
In the database you instead get my_settings
(when settings_my_settings
is needed). This causes then field to be empty when then opening it up in the UI.
Thanks, apologies for not noticing that caveat about saving a new value vs updating existing!