Reply To: Pre populate user field with current user

• Kru-x

• July 22, 2018 at 9:43 am

Hi Phil,

Thank’s for the push in the right direction but the acf-load, did not work as I did it on a new post, it gave me the field before it was loaded (as the name suggest I suppose :-)) and messed up the load of all users.

Maybe it has a solution but I achieved what I needed with the below one (don’t know if it is “programatically correct” but it works for me) if anyone else have the same problem:

function my_prepare_field( $field ) {
$screen = get_current_screen();
$user = wp_get_current_user();
$user = $user -> ID;

//check if post type is new and of a specific post type
if ( ‘add’ === $screen->action && “my_post_type” === $screen->post_type ){
$field [‘value’]= $user; //set user to current user
return $field;
}
else {
return $field;
}

}

add_filter(‘acf/prepare_field/name=my_post_type’, ‘my_prepare_field’);