Reply To: Selecting Category from Frontend Form

• Jonathan

• September 2, 2015 at 5:22 am

Hi Andy,

Sorry I’ve been involved in some personal stuff the past few days 🙂

To be honest I’ve not used the acf_form in this sense before.
What seems strange to me is that you’re setting post_title, post_content and post_category by using $_POST values but if you’re sending the user to this form with just a button there wont be any $_POST variables like this.

The way I’d do it is to just have a taxonomy field on the posts which are mapping the post to the terms (categories) and then add it to the acf_form by setting it in the field_group. Then for the title and content you have built in parameters in acf_form to let users type into those.

Something like:

<?php acf_form(array(
	'post_id'	=> 'new_post',
	'new_post'	=> array(
	   'post_type'	=> 'post',
	   'post_status'=> 'publish'
	),
   'field_groups'   => array(317, 123), // 317 is your existing field group and 123 is a madeup which contains the taxonomy field.
   'submit_value'       => 'Submit Post',
   'updated_message'    => 'Saved!'
)); ?>

You shouldn’t need to mess with $_POST parameters and filters.