Reply To: Querying all posts send by non-login user to a specific author

• James

• July 30, 2016 at 1:33 pm

Hi @jamescarter4

I’m not sure how your current setup is, so I’ll assume that the messages are stored as a custom post type called “message”. With this setup, you need to update the post author of the newly created messages with the companies ID.

It should be something like this:

function my_acf_save_post_change_author( $post_id ) {
    
    // Get the company's user ID (depends on how you set it)
    $company_id = 2;
    
    // Only do this if posted from front end
    if( !is_admin() ){
        
        // Get the post object
        $the_post = get_post($post_id);
        
        // Check the post type
        if( $the_post->post_type == 'message' ){

            // Set the data you want to update
            $my_post = array(
              'ID' => $post_id,
              'post_author' => $company_id,
            );
            
            // Remove action to avoid infinite loop
            remove_action('acf/save_post', 'my_acf_save_post_change_author', 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_change_author', 20);
        
        }
        
    }
    
}

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

After that you can query it like this:

$args = array( 'post_type'=>'message','author'=>$user );

I hope this helps 🙂