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Trevor

#238589

A coder (such coding is outside the scope of our technical support, but it can be done) could automate the filling of this newly required field, but that would only work as you edit/save a post.

Anonymous

#238592

So what should I do?

Trevor

#238596

We can, together, explore going down that route. The first thing I think you CAN do, is to create the ACF field. I would suggest making a dropdown field, where you specify the choices. Open ONE post and manually set the value (correctly), and then we can add that to the form.

Then we can see if we can code it together.

BTW, are you using a child theme?

Anonymous

#238598

Thank you for your help.
OK. Let’s do it like this.
Yes I am using a child theme.

Trevor

#238600

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Anonymous

#238602

what would the field do? to name it in a suitable name

Trevor

#238604

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Anonymous

#238607

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Trevor

#238609

I found a post that will help us:

https://support.searchandfilter.com/forums/topic/author-field-not-honouring-auto-count-setting/#post-223172

The code used there was this:

// save Author to author 
function event_author_on_save( $post_id ) {
  $post_type = 'event'; //custom post type - change to post if you're just working with posts

  //Check if we are saving correct post type
  if( get_post_type( $post_id ) != $post_type)
    return;

  //Check it's not an auto save routine
  if( defined('DOING_AUTOSAVE') && DOING_AUTOSAVE ) 
    return;
  
  // get the author ID of the post
  $author_id = get_post_field ('post_author', $post_id);
  // get the display name of that author
  $author = get_the_author_meta( 'display_name' , $author_id );

  // update the custom field value 
  update_field( 'acf_event_author', $author, $post_id );
}
add_action('save_post', 'event_author_on_save');

Trevor

#238611

Which event did you (also) edit, or did you not edit any yet?

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