Writing ACF fields when creating post

Same issue here. any ideas?

You can only read acf datas with this plugin.

Here is a simple solution for read write acf data:

add_action( 'rest_api_init', 'register_rest_acf_field' );
function register_rest_acf_field() {
  register_rest_field( 'post_type', 'acf_field_name', [
    'get_callback'    => read_acf_field',
    'update_callback' => update_acf_field',
    'schema'          => null,
  ] );
}

function read_acf_field( $object, $field_name, $request ) {
  return get_field( $field_name, $object[ 'id' ] );
}

function update_acf_field( $value, $object, $field_name ) {
  if ( ! $value || ! is_string( $value ) ) {
    return;
  }

  return update_field( $field_name, strip_tags( $value ), $object->ID );
}

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Thanks, I ended up just using another plugin which supports writing ACF fields via the API.

In general this plugin’s documentation is seriously lacking. I’m surprised it’s not mentioned anywhere that seemingly expected functionality like this isn’t possible.

Having the same issue. Which plugin did you end up using @josh88 ?

This plugin – https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/acf-to-rest-api/

It has a different route just for ACF data. So if you’re creating a post, you have to send a request using the base API route, then get the newly created post ID and use that to send the request with the ACF route. Once I figured that out it worked perfectly.