Reply To: Set Post Status and Post Parent via custom field

• James

• May 26, 2016 at 1:36 pm

Hi @maxaud

In that case, you need to create dummy custom fields to create the form. You can also add the input fields manually using “html_after_fields” option, but it will be more complex.

For the post status, you can create a select field type while for the parent post, you can use a post object field type. After that, you can update the post using the acf/save_post and wp_update_post() function. Maybe something like this:

function my_acf_save_post( $post_id ) {
    
    // Get the selected post status
    $value = get_field('post_status_field', $post_id);
    
    // Update current post
    $my_post = array(
      'ID'           => $post_id,
      'post_status'   => $value,
    );

    // Remove the action to avoid infinite loop
    remove_action('acf/save_post', 'my_acf_save_post', 20);
    
    // Update the post into the database
    wp_update_post( $my_post );
    
    // Add the action back
    add_action('acf/save_post', 'my_acf_save_post', 20);
    
}

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

Hope this helps 🙂