Reply To: ACF Form – allow logged-out users to create terms in taxonomy

• John Huebner

• May 3, 2023 at 9:03 am

Short answer is no.

WP requires some permission set capabilities of the taxonomy to add terms. Since the user is not logged in they have no permissions. I’m not 100% sure what capability this is tied to, I think it is ‘manage_terms’ and by default this is tied to the ‘manage_categories’ permission.

It may be possible to use the user_has_cap filter to allow a logged out user to have this permission, but I can find no specific information on this. I would start digging deeper here.