Reply To: How do the date of publication by a front-end form?

• James

• January 12, 2016 at 5:48 pm

Hi @buylov

Maybe you can use something like this:

function my_pre_save_post( $post_id ) {

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

        return $post_id

    }
    
    $posted_date = $_POST['acf']['field_1234567890'];
    $theDate = date_create_from_format('Ymd', $posted_date);
    $theDate = date_format($theDate, 'Y-m-d H:i:s');
    
    // Create a new post
    $args = array(
        'post_status'  => 'publish' ,
        'post_type'  => 'post' ,
        'post_date' => $theDate ,
    );  

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

    // return the new ID
    return $post_id;

}

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

where field_1234567890 is your date field key. Keep in mind that I haven’t tested it yet.

Hope this helps.