Convert ACF Fields to MetaBox?

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December 10, 2019 at 11:10 PM #17476

Rick
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Hey,

I had read a post from a few years ago saying there was plans for a tool to convert ACF fields to Metabox. Was this ever created? I couldn't find a reference to it anywhere else.

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December 13, 2019 at 10:06 AM #17512

Anh Tran
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Hi Rick, we have it on the plan but haven't done it yet. I've just pushed it to our team and will work on that in the next month.

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January 13, 2021 at 8:54 AM #24000

[email protected]
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I've taken a project that has a custom field added to Woocommerce products via ACF. I'd like to add additional fields and CPTs using metabox.io but I'd prefer to convert the ACF field (and the contents of that field in 1,800 products) to a comparable metabox.io field. Then I can delete the ACF plugin.

How would you suggest I do this?

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January 13, 2021 at 5:51 PM #24019

Long Nguyen
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@hartsook:

I'm not sure the way ACF saves the complicated fields but for the simple fields such as text, number, email ... you can just create a Meta Box's custom field with the same field ID (ACF Field Name) and the corresponding field type to use the current field value of the post then deactivate the plugin ACF.

Refer to this topic https://support.metabox.io/topic/is-it-possible-to-move-all-cpt-and-cf-data-from-pods-to-metabox/.

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January 14, 2021 at 7:16 AM #24020

[email protected]
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In my case the ACF field was a simple Text field. Your suggestion worked like a charm and was much easier than I expected.

Thanks,

Pieter

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