ACF & PHP-API (WordPress)

How can you automatically manage ACF fields? In particular, fill in, delete and edit?

Not directly at database level

To start with some bad news: While ACF fields are stored in tables wp_options or wp_postmeta, you cannot write directly to these tables to create ACF fields. Then the 'context' is missing, eg a repeater. So you have to do it via an API call.

See also

• ACF (Advanced Custom Fields, WordPress)

Sources

• https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/
• https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/#functions - All PHP functions together. It's not complete, though!
• https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/code-examples/