Advanced Custom Fields holds the prices, dates, specs and settings that shape your WordPress content. With FlowMattic, Google Sheets becomes a second place to manage them: edit a column and the field on the post changes, add a row and a repeater grows, and every field change on the site is logged back to a sheet.
9 triggers 29 actions 7 example workflows 2 ready-made templates Unlimited runs
When this happens in Advanced Custom Fields3 triggers
Do this in Google Sheets19 actions
1. TriggerUser Updates Post Field2. ActionAdd New RowWhen Advanced Custom Fields fires User Updates Post Field, FlowMattic runs Add New Row in Google Sheets with the data from that event.
You build this in the FlowMattic workflow builder on your own site. See the setup steps
Each one uses only triggers and actions the two integrations ship today, plus FlowMattic's own tools. Where the library has a ready-made template, import it instead of building from scratch.
Keep prices or stock notes in a sheet. When the price column changes, the post ID in that row is used to update the ACF field, so the page shows the new value.
Update Specific Column ValueUpdate Post Value
Event dates, menu items or team members added to a sheet are appended to an ACF repeater on the page, so content editors never open the post editor.
New Spreadsheet RowAdd New Row Value to Repeater Field in Post
A banner text or holiday hours stored in an ACF options page is updated when a manager edits a single cell, without giving them WordPress access.
Update Specific Cell DataUpdate Option Value
A Schedule reads all rows, Iterator walks through them and each post's field is updated, a safe way to apply a whole day of changes in one pass.
ScheduleGet RowsIteratorUpdate Post Value
Each time an editor changes a custom field on a post, a row records the post, field and new value, which helps teams trace who changed a price or date.
User Updates Post FieldAdd New Row
Site-wide settings such as phone numbers, addresses or default prices are logged with the new value and date, so a wrong setting can be traced and reversed.
User Updates Options Page FieldAdd New Row
When a member updates a profile field, such as their city or speciality, their row in the directory sheet is found by user ID and updated.
User Updates Profile FieldLookup Row DataUpdate Row
At the end, changing a value in your sheet's price column updates the matching ACF field on that post.
Make a sheet with a Post ID column and a column for the field you manage, such as Price.
Under Connects, add Google Sheets with the account that owns the sheet. ACF runs on the same site and needs no connection.
Create a workflow with this Google Sheets trigger, pick the spreadsheet, sheet and the Price column, then change one value so FlowMattic captures the row.
Add ACF Update Post Value, map the Post ID column, enter the field name and map the new price. Test on a draft post, then switch the workflow on.
1. Trigger in Google Sheets
Update Specific Column Value
2. Action in Advanced Custom Fields
Update Post Value
Fields mapped from the earlier steps (a typical setup)
| From Advanced Custom Fields | To Advanced Custom Fields |
|---|---|
| Post ID column | Post ID |
| Price column | Field value: price |
A trigger starts a workflow. An action is something FlowMattic does in the app as a step.
Advanced Custom Fields and Google Sheets connect through FlowMattic on your own site, with no separate automation account in the middle and no charge per run.
Prices, specs and opening hours are managed in Google Sheets, and the site follows without anyone touching the post editor.
Sheets can change ACF values and ACF changes can be logged to Sheets, all from FlowMattic on the site that holds the fields.
Unlimited runs mean a nightly sync of hundreds of rows costs the same as one edit, and it all runs on your own server.
Keep the post ID in a column, start a workflow with the Google Sheets Update Specific Column Value trigger on the column you edit, and add ACF Update Post Value with the post ID, field name and new value.
Yes. Use User Updates Post Field to write each change as a row. For existing posts, a Schedule with Get Post Value inside a loop can write the current values once.
Yes. Update Option Value writes to an options page field, and User Updates Options Page Field starts a workflow when someone changes one in wp-admin.
Yes. Update User Value sets a field on a user by ID, and User Updates Profile Field starts a workflow when a profile field changes, for example to keep a member directory sheet current.
Yes, for text, number, date and select fields. Repeater, Flexible Content and options pages are ACF PRO features, so the steps that use them need PRO.
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Reviewed 27 Oct 2026. The example workflows are written with AI from the real triggers and actions of both integrations and checked against them. Advanced Custom Fields integration 1.1.1, Google Sheets integration 2.2.4.
