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OK – this looks like what I’m looking for – I have an acf form with field (date-time) date/time picker that I would like to use to set the publication date of the draft post
The acf form works fine in my wp template – I just need the date/time picker to set the publication date…?
Could you please highlight what I need to do with the above to get the basics working?
I have tried putting this code into my functions.php without any luck…
function my_acf_save_post( $post_id ) {
if(!is_admin()){
// get new value
$theDate = get_field('post-date', $post_id, false);
if($theDate){
$theDate = date_create_from_format('Ymd', $theDate);
$theDate = date_format($theDate, 'Y-m-d H:i:s');
$my_post = array(
'ID' => $post_id,
'post_date' => $theDate,
);
// do something
// unhook this function so it doesn't loop infinitely
remove_action('acf/save_post', 'my_acf_save_post');
// update the post, which calls save_post again
wp_update_post( $my_post );
// re-hook this function
add_action('acf/save_post', 'my_acf_save_post');
}
}
}
// run after ACF saves the $_POST['acf'] data
add_action('acf/save_post', 'my_acf_save_post', 20);
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