Reply To: how to create front end form data add in post

• John Huebner

• July 9, 2015 at 8:26 am

Originally I thought you said that you had a custom post type.

Adding the post to a category will be a little more complicated.

The code in your template should be

<?php 
    $args = array(
        'field_groups' => array('members-field')), // Field Group name
        'post_id' => 'new_post',
        'new_post' => array(
            'post_type' => 'post',
            'post_status' => 'draft'
         ),
        'submit_value' => 'Submit Application'
    );
    acf_form(); 
?>

for the pre_save_filter something like the below, for this you’re going to need to know the category id

unction my_pre_save_post( $post_id ) {

    // check if this is to be a new post
    if( $post_id != 'new' ) {
        return $post_id
    }

    // Create a new post
    $post = array(
        'post_status'  => 'draft' ,
        'post_title'  => 'A title, maybe a $_POST variable' ,
        'post_type'  => 'post',
    );  

    // insert the post
    $post_id = wp_insert_post($post); 

    $category_id = 0; // change this to your category ID
    wp_set_post_categories($post_id, array($category), false);
    // see WP codex for more information on wp_set_post_categories

    // return the new ID
    return $post_id;

}

add_filter('acf/pre_save_post' , 'my_pre_save_post', 10, 1 );