Reply To: Filing taxonomies using front-end submissions

• James

• December 9, 2016 at 2:53 pm

Hi @jack1

Could you please try to use the acf/save_post hook instead? This page should give you more idea about it: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acfsave_post/.

So, your code should be something like this:

add_action('acf/save_post' , 'my_acf_save_post', 20 );
function my_acf_save_post( $post_id ) {
    
    // only do this for application post type
    if( !get_post_type($post_id) == 'application' ) return;
    
    // initialize the post array
    $post = array(
        'ID'          => $post_id,
    );

    // Some logic goes here to determine what taxonomy term the post is to be filed in

    $post += ['tax_input' => array(
        'taxonomy1_to_use' => $id_of_taxonomy_term1,
        'taxonomy2_to_use' => $id_of_taxonomy_term2
    )];
    
    // remove the hook to avoid the infinite loop issue
    // https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_update_post#Caution_-_Infinite_loop
    add_action('acf/save_post' , 'my_acf_save_post', 20 );

    // insert the post
    wp_update_post( $post );
    
    // add the hook back
    add_action('acf/save_post' , 'my_acf_save_post', 20 );

};

I hope this helps 🙂