Reply To: Schedule Post with Frontend Form?

• Josh White

• November 22, 2022 at 4:37 pm

I cannot manage to get this working whatsoever…. hopefully someone can assist. Perhaps things have changed in the last 8 years and there is a better way to do this?

Here’s my code to display my form:

    <?php acf_form(array(
        'post_id'       => 'new_post',
        'id' => 'new-email',
        'new_post'      => array(
            'post_type'     => 'emails',
            'post_status'   => 'future',
            'field_groups' => array(1091),
            'post_title'    => true
        ),
        'return' => '',
        'submit_value'  => 'Add new email'
    )); ?>

Not sure if I have the field_groups ID correct or not. Not sure how to retrieve that. Is that the “post id” of the field group?

Here’s my functions file code:

add_filter('acf/pre_save_post' , 'emails_pre_save_post', 10, 1 );
function emails_pre_save_post($post_id) {
  // check if this is to be a new post
  if ($post_id != 'new_emails') {
    return $post_id;
  }
  // The date picker field
  // change field_563657f49b4d9 to the field key of your date field
  $postdate = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime($_POST['acf']['field_emails_email_scheduled_date']));
  
  // Create a new post
  $post = array(
    'post_type' => 'emails',
    'post_title' => $_POST['acf']['_post_title'],
    'post_status'  => 'future',
    'post_date'  => $postdate,
    'edit_date' => true
  );  
  
  // insert the post
  $post_id = wp_insert_post( $post ); 
  
  // return the new ID
  return $post_id;
}