Reply To: ACF Form Delete Post

• John Huebner

• November 4, 2016 at 11:01 am

add_filter('acf/save_post', 'possibly_delete_post');
function possibly_delete_post($post_id) {
  $post_type = get_post_type($post_id);
  // change to post type you want them to be able to delete
  if ($post_type != 'post-type') {
    return;
  }
  if (get_field('delete_this_post', $post_id)) {
    $force_delete = false; // move to trash
    // change above to true to permanently delete
    wp_delete_post($post_id, $force_delete);
    // redirect them somewhere since the post will no longer exist
    // see https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_redirect/
    wp_redirect('/some_page/');
    exit;
  }
}