[Plugin: Custom Field Template] Save button causing data to disappear

I have a related problem. But not with save button. I actually disabled the save button because I did not want to confusse my client with that button, and preferred them to press the publish / update button instead. With some custom fields, mostly WYSIWYGs, when I press update, the fields do not get saved the first time. When I do it the second time, then it gets saved.

I also experienced this problem with a couple simple text fields where I paste URLs to PDF files.

Using version 1.7.9.

Any help will be much appreciated!
Thanks

BrenFM, I agree with you, there is definitely a bug with the auto save function that clears data. I’m having the same issue, even if Publish or Update are also clicked.

Hi,
I am having the same issue. I just did a clean install of WP 3.0.5 and then uploaded the plugin and configured my theme. Everything works and then i hit the Save button then Update and poof there goes the content. It displays on the page but doesn’t return/load the value into the template field on the post form. Glad to see it wasn’t just me. I hope someone finds a solution.

Thanks.

Search in the plugin, as you use it, where the update of meta data is doing (save_post) and then put those lines before:

if (defined(‘DOING_AUTOSAVE’) && DOING_AUTOSAVE) {
return $postID;
}

an example complet made handly in functions.php is this one:

// here we save the data in database
add_action(‘save_post’, ‘save_details’);
function save_details(){
global $post;

$post_id = $post->ID;

// verify if this is an auto save routine. If it is our form has not been submitted, so we dont want
// to do anything
if ( defined(‘DOING_AUTOSAVE’) && DOING_AUTOSAVE )
return $post_id;

update_post_meta($post_id, “year_photo”, $_POST[‘year_photo’]);
update_post_meta($post_id, “year”, $_POST[‘year’]);
update_post_meta($post_id, “location”, $_POST[‘location’]);
update_post_meta($post_id, “camera”, $_POST[‘camera’]);
} //end function

I found this answer here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2539951/wordpress-add-meta-box-weirdness

Hope this help!

working ok for me on new sites with twenty theme and on a staging site BUT same problem as above on live version of staging with custom theme. Staging/live sites share almost exactly the same code but have different plugins. I’m looking for plugin conflict now …

The Custom Field Template is a great plugin, if this bug could be fixed it would be much appreciated.