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

• James

• January 16, 2016 at 7:45 pm

Hi @buylov

It should be working. I don’t know why the new post is not detected. As a workaround, you can use acf/save_post instead. Something like this:

function my_acf_save_post( $post_id ) {
    
    // get new value
    $theDate = get_field('post-date', $post_id, false);
    $theDate = date_create_from_format('Ymd', $theDate);
    $theDate = date_format($theDate, 'Y-m-d H:i:s');
    
    $my_post = array(
      'ID'           => $post_id,
      'post_date'   => $theDate,
    );
    // do something
    
    // unhook this function so it doesn't loop infinitely
    remove_action('acf/save_post', 'my_acf_save_post');

    // update the post, which calls save_post again
    wp_update_post( $my_post );

    // re-hook this function
    add_action('acf/save_post', 'my_acf_save_post');
    
}

// run after ACF saves the $_POST['acf'] data
add_action('acf/save_post', 'my_acf_save_post', 20);

I hope this does the trick!