Reply To: How do the date of publication by a front-end form?

• pjsando

• January 4, 2018 at 2:25 am

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);