Forminator Post Custom Data richtext is missing

HI @kiterfred,

I assume the custom fields is created using the ACF plugin? If yes, could you please share a screenshot of the custom fields created on the ACF plugin side?

Also if possible, please share the form export so that we could check if it’s something that could be replicated on our side too.

Please check the following doc on how to export a form:
https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/forminator/#import-export

If you are concerned about any sensitive information in the form, then you can duplicate your form, remove any sensitive information, and then export it.

You can share the export file via Google Drive, Dropbox or any cloud services in the next reply.

Looking forward to your response.

Kind Regards,
Nithin

Hey Nithin,

thank you for your reply.
I made a minimal example of my problem.
You can get the formnator form and the acf export from

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/881hi87nf7nbqht/AADmFqeLFPqOTXG9FInixhv6a?dl=0

Version of
ACF is 6.0.5
Forminator is 1.20.1
Wordpress is 6.1.1

If i can do more to help you please write me.

Hi @kiterfred

Thank you, I was able to replicate the issue.

It seems that the content of the “textarea” field gets “sanitized” or “cleaned-up” before it’s passed over to the custom field sub-field of “post-data” and I’m not quite sure if this is intentional or a glitch/bug.

I have asked our developers for consultation on this and I’m awaiting their response.

We’ll update you here with more information once we only get more insights into this.

Kind regards,
Adam

Hi @kiterfred

I got some feedback from our developers on this.

Please try adding this code snippet to the site:

<?php 

add_filter( 'forminator_field_postdata_sanitize', 'wpmudev_sanitize_fix_postdata', 10, 3 );
function wpmudev_sanitize_fix_postdata( $data, $field, $original_data ) {
	if ( ! empty( $original_data['post-custom'] ) ) {
		foreach ( $original_data['post-custom'] as $key => $value ) {
			if ( $value['key'] == 'anforderungen' ) {
				if ( $value['value'] != '' ) {
					$data['post-custom'][$key]['value'] = wp_kses_post( $value['value'] );
				}
			}
		}
	}
	return $data;
}

To do this:

– create an empty file with a .php extension (e.g. “forminator-custom-fields-nosanitize.php”)
– copy and paste this code into it and save the file
– upload the file to the “/wp-content/mu-plugins” folder of your site’s WordPress installation

Then test the form and it should work.

Best regards,
Adam

Thank you so much for your help.

This solves my problem.

Hi @kiterfred,

Glad to know that the workaround provided resolved the issue.

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