Post meta data not showing in frontend, until hitting ‘update’ button

Thanks for your answers! Maybe I was a bit unclear, but I don’t use ACF, it is just a field that comes with the theme.

However, this question and answers helped to find the problem: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34018588/wordpress-add-post-meta-data-doesnt-display-on-page-until-post-is-manually

My WP metadata table entry was incomplete after creating a post programatically, the theme required another field. Saving the post again through the UI fixed that.

Using a plugin to display the meta data I compared the post’s meta data after inserting the post and after hitting the update button, so I identified the missing value in the meta data..!

Hope this helps also for others with a similar issue!

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