Reply To: Custom field not populating on new post

• ractoon

• August 18, 2016 at 8:21 am

wp_current_user() returns a User object. To get the ID you would need to access it like:

$current_user->ID

So your code would be updated to:

$current_user = wp_get_current_user();

$new_post = array(
  'post_title' => 'Planner for '.$current_user->display_name,
  'post_type' => 'planner',
  'user_id' => $current_user->ID,
  'post_author' => $_SESSION['USER_ID'],
  'post_status' => 'publish'
);

$post_id = wp_insert_post( $new_post, $wp_error );

if (is_wp_error($post_id)) {
  $errors = $post_id->get_error_messages();
  foreach ($errors as $error) {
    echo $error;
  }
}