Updating failed. Could not update the meta value of inline_featured_image

thanks for the info!

I’ll see if I can reproduce this issue and find the cause.

Hi! Any news?

hey, having trouble reproducing this issue at all.

I don’t know why. Any chance you could provide detailed steps to reproduce?

Tried setting up the same environment to reproduce with no luck.

Hmm, the only additional info is that it’s wp engine hosting and the theme is hybrid (block editor + php). Maybe could provide you access if needed…

if there’s an easy enough way to do that, I’m sure it would be super helpful.

Hi,

i have the same problem, error “Could not update the meta value of inline_featured_image”.
Error is raised after trying to save a custom post (created with Custom Post Type UI and ACF).
I cannot pinpoint exactly when the error first occurred, but it was not present in earlier versions.

Thanks for sharing.

I’ll try using custom post type ui and see if I can reproduce. Haven’t had any luck reproducing as of yet unfortunately.

Hi there,

any news on this topic? We are still having this issue with WordPress 6.6.1 and SVG Support Version Version 2.5.8. On a custom theme with ACF Pro.

I still haven’t been able to reproduce this. I’ll give it another go asap, I’m committed to trying to get this sorted, surely I’ll be able to reproduce it somehow since there’s a handful of people experiencing it.

Hi @benbodhi ,

For a manual fix see end of this post.

If i deactivate the plugin “SVG Support”, no more errors, post can be saved.

Could be something incompatible with php version 7.4.x -> 8.x.

Did the following tests:

• In testing i deactivated all plugins except “Advanced Cusstom Fields – 6.3.6”, “Custom Post Type UI – 1.17.1” and “SVG Support – 2.5.8”, WP core is 6.5.5, PHP Version 8.1.x. problem still present.
• I tested with older versions of SVG Support back to 2.4.x, same problem
• Downgrade of WP Core to 6.4.x and 6.3.x, same problem (but staying with php 8.1.x)

We were running fine with 2.5.5 for some time combined with wp core 6.3.x and php 7.4.x, then did some upgrades, including WP Core and PHP to 8.1.x and noticed the errors.

I also found that creating a completely new post the error is not raised, post can be saved and changed.

Manual fix for the problem, example postid == 123:

I noticed multiple DB entries in wp_postmeta for postid=123 with meta_key=inline_featured_image, meta_value=null but there should only exist one entry for this meta_key for each unique post.
After removing these entries from the db the post can be saved again.
How and when these multiple entries were created i can not reproduce at the moment.

Hope this helps.

Hi @dwdlg

This is actually very very helpful!!! Thanks so much. I have a feeling I know what’s going on based on the behaviour you described. I’ll dig into it and see if I can get it sorted and push an update asap.

Hi! Maybe a good news here ?? After upgrading to WordPress 6.6.2 and activating the plugin back, can’t find the problem anymore.

We are still experiencing this issue under WordPress 6.6.2.

Thanks for letting me know this @webprom and hopefully it doesn’t return for you.

@fabro1909 can you please try deactivating and then reactivating my SVG plugin on your site? Wondering if doing that combined with WP 6.6.2 clears things up.

I have also confirmed there were several entries for meta “inline_featured_image” in the postmeta DB table. They were all set to null value.

I manually removed all the extra entries leaving just one for the post/page. Now I can update the page normally. I am running WP 6.6.2 and SVG Support 2.5.8. (Thanks @dwdlg)

Before that, I had tried updating to WP 6.6.2 and deactivating/reactivating the plugin but it didn’t work (the extra entries were not cleared). It seems the problem is more related to the extra “inline_featured_image” meta entries in the DB.