Reply To: Create new Post in Front end

• David Crabill

• July 18, 2013 at 7:37 am

@thx1138, I’m not sure if this is the best way, but here’s how I do it. Instead of setting post_id to “new”, I set it to “new_post-type”, then I use that to specify the post type in my_pre_save_post:

function my_pre_save_post( $post_id ) {
    $type = explode( '_', $post_id, 2 );
    if ( $type[0] != 'new' ) // Check if this is a new post
        return $post_id;

    // Create a new post
    $post = array(
        'post_status' => 'publish',
        'post_title' => 'Untitled',
        'post_type' => $type[1]
    );
    $post_id = wp_insert_post( $post ); // Insert the post
    do_action( 'acf/save_post' , $post_id ); // Save the fields to the post
    wp_redirect( add_query_arg( 'updated', 'true', get_permalink( $post_id ) ) ); exit; // Redirect to the new post
    return $post_id;
}
add_filter( 'acf/pre_save_post' , 'my_pre_save_post' );