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

• James

• January 19, 2016 at 5:29 pm

Hi @buylov

Nice finding! I forgot about this plugin. With this plugin, it should be easier. I think something like this will work:

function my_acf_save_post( $post_id ) {
    
    if(!is_admin()){
        // get new value
        $theDate = get_field('date_time', $post_id, false);
        
        if($theDate){

            $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);

Please change the “date_time” with your date time field name. Also, you need to set the date format to yy-mm-dd and time format to HH:mm:ss.

I hope this helps.