Reply To: Frontend form Edit Post link

• ireth92

• October 9, 2017 at 5:43 am

I followed what James was saying and used the $_GET method. Here’s how I made it work, hopefully it will help someone:

(I’m assuming you know how to create WordPress page templates, and know how to create ACF submit forms)

1. Add a button on your single.php that sends the post id with $_GET to a page that we will create next:

global $post;
$postID = $post->ID; ?>
		
<a href="./page-with-form/?post=<?php echo $postID; ?>">Edit Post Button</a>

2. Create a page template with the ACF form in it. This page from the ACF documentation has an example on how to edit a specific post with a form. You’ll just have to set the post id dynamically in this case. This is what my form looks like:

<?php acf_form(array(
    'post_id'	   => $post_id, //Variable that you'll get from the URL
    'post_title'   => true,
    'post_content' => true,
    'fields' => array('_thumbnail_id', 'ask_for_donations'),  //The name of the custom fields I want to show on the form              
    'submit_value' => 'Update Content',
    'return' => '%post_url%' //Returns to the original post
)); ?>

3. To read the post id that has been passed on the URL (will look like: ?post=number) add the following line on the page template somewhere before the form starts:
$post_id = $_GET["post"];