When you use Gravity Forms to make a post, you can provision ACF fields but what I found was that the data wasn’t showing up correctly until I manually went and updated the created post. I tried using the WordPress wp_update_post() function but found that didn’t do it. I ended up taking a look at the post_meta in the database directly.I use Sequel Pro. That’s something that I find myself doing more and more. When you can look directly at evidence, do that. Don’t assume. So what I saw was this . . . You can see that the base custom fields are there. The data is visible. Now I hit update and refreshed the database view and saw lots of new custom fields get generated. This data associates the human readable fields with the field keys that ACF creates. Note the underscores which prevent those fields from showing up in the backend of WP even if you have view custom fields selected. I feel like this has something to do with acf/save_post but couldn’t figure out how to make that work. When my knowledge fails,And many, many Google searches . . . I resort to force. First, I turned on the ability to see the field keys in ACF. It’s easy to miss and easy to forget that this […]