Field values are ending up with slashes in front of certain characters

Created by Phil Kurth, Modified on Tue, 28 Jun, 2022 at 4:41 PM by Phil Kurth

If you find values to be slashed — e.g; that's > that\'s — then you may need to hook into ACF's field value formatting and reformat the value as follows:

add_filter( 'acf/format_value/type=text', function ( $value ) {
  return stripslashes( $value );
}, 10, 1 );

Note that the above example handles text fields only. If you also need to handle textarea fields:

add_filter( 'acf/format_value/type=textarea', function ( $value ) {
  return stripslashes( $value );
}, 10, 1 );