Title: Empty ACF values in wp-admin
Last modified: June 25, 2018

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# Empty ACF values in wp-admin

 *  [ADvi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/advi/)
 * (@advi)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-acf-values-in-wp-admin/)
 * Hi.
    Site owner imported description, meta title and meta keywords values with
   WP All Import into ACF fields that were assigned to WooCommerce categories.
 * The result is that this imported values are shown in frontend with this code
 *     ```
       <?php 
       global $woocommerce, $woocommerce_loop, $product;
       $category = get_queried_object();
       $ct = $category->name;
       $catid = $category->term_id;
       the_field('description', $catid); ?>
       ```
   
 * but not visible in wp-admin
 * Here is Group of Fields
 * For testing purposes I’ve created my new ACF field, filled it and put in frontend.
   It works as expected (I see value both in frontend and in backend).
 * About DB:
    My New field is in wp_options table (piece of dump) ` INSERT INTO`
   wp_options` VALUES(“13198”, “product_cat_15_description2”, “Описание от Devise”,“
   no”); INSERT INTO `wp_options` VALUES(“13199”, “_product_cat_15_description2”,“
   field_5b30f2f1fde5f”, “no”); `
 * but problematic fields are in wp_postmeta
    ` INSERT INTO`wp_postmeta` VALUES(“
   101229”, “795”, “_wp_page_template”, “default”); INSERT INTO `wp_postmeta` VALUES(“
   101228”, “795”, “description”, “<h2>Трубы чугунные ВЧШГ ГОСТ 9583-75: технические
   характеристики</h2><p>text</p>”); INSERT INTO `wp_postmeta` VALUES(“101227”, “
   795”, “_description”, “field_5ac67e4bbc4ff”); `
 * The question is how can I repair problematic fields to make them show in backend
   too.
    -  This topic was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by [ADvi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/advi/).

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-acf-values-in-wp-admin/)
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