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[Assigned] Moving existing ACF site to Toolset and looking for Best Practice Guide

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Last updated by Jonathon Hanten 3 days, 4 hours ago.

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I have an existing Newspaper website running a very customized homegrown theme that uses CPTUI, ACF, WPML we want to transform it into a more block friendly experience using the GeneratePress Theme and a combination of GenerateBlocks, WPML and several other plugins. One other consideration is to try to transition also to Toolset so we can build out some custom interactions easier. I was wondering if you all have any instructions on how to transition to Toolset from ACF while maintaining the database? The site has roughly 13,000 items in different CPTs that we are trying to maintain for SEO and sanity purposes.

Advice would be appreciated, thank you.

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Minesh
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Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

Here is the Doc that you should try to follow:
- https://toolset.com/documentation/migrating-from-acf-to-toolset/

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Yes, I found that already. I was hoping for some documentation on ways to keep data integrity during the transition. For example, I have an ACF field 'byline' which I recreated in Toolset using the exact same name 'byline', but the existing data is missing in Toolset.

Toolset has done a good job of taking over the CPTs, but apparently the ids are different for custom fields so all the CPTs extra data is just gone.

I have 12000 existing CPT items each of them have custom fields originally added by ACF. So I need a method of gracefully transferring the data from the ACF storage method to the Toolset storage method because they appear to be different. I had been hoping if I matched the ID exactly Toolset would be able to pick up and use the fields if the field type was the same.

Does that help further explain my needs?

Thanks.