Reply To: acf/save_post – send email only once the posttype is created

• rhodesign

• July 6, 2023 at 9:30 am

Hi John
Thank you for helping me out.

To make it more precise:

I have a frontend form where anyone can add a post to a cpt.
This post is saved as draft until the site-owner is publishing the post.

After filling the form on frontend, a mail should go to the client with a thank you message that his post will be published if everyting is ok.

Thats where I have used acf/save_post.

This is my Code

add_action('acf/save_post' , 'my_save_post', 20);
function my_save_post($post_id) {

	 // If not CPT, exit
    if( get_post_type($post_id) !== 'inserate' ) {
        return;
    }

    add_filter( 'wp_mail_content_type', 'wpdocs_set_html_mail_content_type' );
    

	// get custom fields (field group exists for content_form)
	$name = get_field('name', $post_id);
    $email = get_field('email', $post_id); 

    $to = $email;
	$headers = 'From: ' . $name . ' <' . $email . '>' . "\r\n";
    $subject = 'Thank you';
    $message = 'Thank you for submitting a post';

    wp_mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers );

    remove_filter( 'wp_mail_content_type', 'wpdocs_set_html_mail_content_type' );
}

Now my question is, to just send this mail after submitting the form, but not after publishing. At the moment the action is fired multiple times and I need a check for the post status or something else.

Roman