WordPress, ACF Plugin: Why is a sub-field being saved as a main field?

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The issue is that I'm trying to create a Repeater field which has a single Text field within it. However, after clicking on update, the field is moved out of the Repeater field and placed as its neighbour. Researching, I only came up with issues where the field wasn't being saved at all, or the combined option names were too long if there was too much nesting of fields. I did increase the max_input_vars from the default 1000 to 3000, but nothing changes.

Adding a new sub-field within the repeater

The state of the field group after updating

Some other info that might prove to be useful:

  • WordPress version: 5.0.3
  • ACF version: 5.6.3
  • PHP version: 5.6

EDIT: To answer the comment below, and for future reference if you can't view the images, the Field Names are landing_subtitles and subtitle for the Repater field and Text sub-field, respectively.

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Do the fields maybe have the same name? Sometimes that confuses acf! – VA79

1 Answers

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I came here looking for an answer on the same issue.

I updated my ACF Pro version from Version 5.6.10 to 5.8.0 and it works for me now.

EDIT:

Wordpress Version 5.0.3

PHP Version 7.2.7