I'm having an issue on 5.6.18 where I create a Custom Field Group with both "Save data in a custom table" and "Create table automatically" selected, and no custom table gets created in the database.
Existing Custom Field Groups with Custom Tables work only if updating an existing Post. Any new Post with these previously created Custom Field Groups do not save to the Custom Table.
Can you please share some screenshots of the issue on your site? You can try to deactivate all plugins except Meta Box, MB AIO and switch to a standard theme and check the issue again. If it does not help, please enable WP debug and check if there is any error in the log then share it with me.
Just to be clear, the above example is still in error because the data is not saving to a Custom Table (the table was not created in the database at all, even though "Save Data in a Custom Table" is selected), and the data entered into the field saves to wp_postmeta like a normal Custom Field would do.
I just installed Metabox to a clean WordPress install on a staging site and I'm seeing the same issue. Metabox is not creating the Custom Table. Data added to customer fields saves to wp_postmeta each time.
Thank you Peter, that was it. We can mark this as Resolved. The only issue I have now is updating Custom Table via REST is not working, but there are other threads for that.
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