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How can you create and insert new posts containing already filled Advanced Custom Fields programmatically into your database?

Say you have an ACF group with 3 fields each of a different type
- description (type Text)
- image (type Image)
- categories (type Taxonomy)
prepare a basic post

$my_post = array(
        'post_title'    => 'My post',
        'post_content'  => 'This is my post.',
        'post_status'   => 'publish',
        'post_author'   => 1
    );

$my_post = array(

'post_title' => 'My post',

'post_content' => 'This is my post.',

'post_status' => 'publish',

'post_author' => 1

);

insert post and keep the created post id

    $post_id = wp_insert_post( $my_post );

1	$post_id = wp_insert_post( $my_post );

then update values of custom fields using the post id

    // description (text type field)
    update_field('field_5629f95fc4108', 'description for post', $post_id);

    // image (Image type field)
    $image_id = array(1, 2, 3);
    update_field('field_5621199730caa', $image_id, $post_id);

    // categories (Taxonomy field type)
    $categories_ids = array(1, 2, 3);
    update_field('field_56211b33d0018', $categories_ids, $post_id);

// description (text type field)

update_field('field_5629f95fc4108', 'description for post', $post_id);

// image (Image type field)

$image_id = array(1, 2, 3);

update_field('field_5621199730caa', $image_id, $post_id);

// categories (Taxonomy field type)

$categories_ids = array(1, 2, 3);

update_field('field_56211b33d0018', $categories_ids, $post_id);

… Or it can be done using the following code:

To enter a new post for a custom type

$post_id = wp_insert_post(array (
   'post_type' => 'your_post_type',
   'post_title' => $your_title,
   'post_content' => $your_content,
   'post_status' => 'publish',
   'comment_status' => 'closed',   // if you prefer
   'ping_status' => 'closed',      // if you prefer
));

$post_id = wp_insert_post(array (

'post_type' => 'your_post_type',

'post_title' => $your_title,

'post_content' => $your_content,

'post_status' => 'publish',

'comment_status' => 'closed', // if you prefer

'ping_status' => 'closed', // if you prefer

));

After inserting the post, a post id will be returned by the above function. Now if you want to enter any post meta information w.r.t this post then following code snippet can be used.

if ($post_id) {
   // insert post meta
   add_post_meta($post_id, '_your_custom_1', $custom1);
   add_post_meta($post_id, '_your_custom_2', $custom2);
   add_post_meta($post_id, '_your_custom_3', $custom3);
}

if ($post_id) {

// insert post meta

add_post_meta($post_id, '_your_custom_1', $custom1);

add_post_meta($post_id, '_your_custom_2', $custom2);

add_post_meta($post_id, '_your_custom_3', $custom3);

}

I have some meta values on my wordpress custom page that I need to be displayed in a table. Is there any way I can do that.

Here’s the code I’m using now: <?php the_meta(); ?>

And this is what it shows:

I want to do something like:

I found out that:

the_meta() is located in wp-includes/post-template.php

This makes the output:

<ul class='post-meta'>
<li><span class='post-meta-key'>your_key:</span> your_value</li>
</ul>

<li><span class='post-meta-key'>your_key:</span> your_value</li>

</ul>

So it’s not recommended to edit files in that folder because of the wordpress update.

You can make a table in html and display each value individually, like this:

<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Yout key', true); ?>

1	<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Yout key', true); ?>

Here‘s the documentation or https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Custom_Fields

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