All my fields disappeared

  • I’ve got a bunch of different field groups I use for different custom post types and suddenly none of them are listed in the “Field Group” page of the Dashboard. They seem to still exist because everything is functioning properly on the site, but they’ve disappeared from management area. How do I recover these? It’s hard to know when they disappeared because there is no front-end error showing up, I didn’t notice this until today when I went to create a new field group and saw the empty list.

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  • I might have the exact same issue. These are my findings
    – The site currently works fine
    – The custom fields defined on the pages still exist because it’s defined in the theme
    – The custom field values still exists because they are created in the wp_post_meta table
    – The fieldgroups are nonexistent
    – The plugin version does not exist in the wp_options table
    – When I update and save one of the fields it will empty all fields and a database restore will have to be performed in order to make things work.

    Im new with wordpress and this plugin, but as far as I could see in the code 5 tables are needed in total of which 2 of them are wordpress tables. The three other tables do not exist in my wordpress system.

    @flantascience Can you confirm this is what you have as well? and if so, did you find a solution yet?

    Thread Starter flantascience

    (@flantascience)

    I’m not exactly sure what you’re describing….
    But the site works fine but all the fields are not appearing in the WP dashboard. Not familiar with the code 5 tables you are describing. I am trying not to update/save anything for fear of crashing my whole site. But this really sucks. This site is 2 years old and has all this data and content from hundreds of kids and I fear its all just going to get wiped away any moment. Really disappointed in this.

    the “code 5 tables” is:
    I was reading the code (of the plugin) and I saw 5 database tables are used.

    I’m a software developer (not from this plugin) and am currently tasked with finding a solution.
    As far as I know nothing can go wrong as long as you dont touch anything. Only when a post or page is updated things might seem missing, but I’m pretty sure the data that is of big importance will always be recoverable. But since I’m relatively new with both wordpress and this plugin I cannot be 100% sure, I’ve only seen the broken situation.

    Hi there, this happened to me too. If you go under the WordPress Dashboard menu in your back end (left side, at the top), there should be a sub menu item to “upgrade database”. Go to that page and click to update. Keep a backup first of course – and always, before any updates.
    Hope this helps.

    Thread Starter flantascience

    (@flantascience)

    Here’s how I resolved it…. I downloaded v4.0 of their plugin and installed it. Then updated the wp_options field in my database for the acf version to 4.0. Then I updated the plugin to the latest version. It opened a box saying “must update the database”. Once I updated the database, all the fields came back.

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