acf form: edit post title and post_status

• head9r

• May 25, 2015 at 4:42 am

Hey,

I’m using acf_form to create new and edit existing posts of CPT ‘discs’.

This is my code in functions.php:

// Create the frontend form
function my_pre_save_post( $post_id ) {
	if ( $post_id != 'new' ) {
		return $post_id;
	}

	$post = array(
		'post_status' => 'draft',
		'post_title' => $_POST['fields']['field_5479cd3485fcf'],
		'post_type' => 'discs'
		);  

	$post_id = wp_insert_post($post); 

	$_POST['return'] = add_query_arg( array('post_id' => $post_id), $_POST['return'] );    
	
	return $post_id;
}
add_filter('acf/pre_save_post' , 'my_pre_save_post' );

This is my code to add new ‘discs’ posts:

$args = array(
            'post_id' => 'new',
            'field_groups' => array(177, 100, 104, 111, 113, 136),
            'field_el' => 'div',
            'return' => home_url() . '/discs/#new-success',
            'submit_value'      => 'Create',
            'updated_message' => 'Done.'
         );

acf_form( $args );

And this is my code to edit existing ‘discs’ posts:

 $args = array(
              'post_id' => get_the_ID(),
              'field_groups' => array(100, 104, 111, 113, 136),
              'form' => true,
              'return' => home_url() . '/discs/#edit-success',
              'html_before_fields' => '',
              'html_after_fields' => '',
              'post_status'  => 'draft',
              'submit_value' => 'Update',
              'updated_message' => 'Update done.'
           );
acf_form( $args );

However, add new posts and edit existing posts works fine.
Additionally I want two things:

1) After editing a post, set the post_status to ‘draft’ or ‘pending’.
2) When creating a new post, get the value from input field (name / field_5479cd3485fcf) and set this as the new post_title.

I tried a lot but nothing worked for me.

Thanks for your help!

• John Huebner

• June 11, 2015 at 11:34 am

I just replied to another post that is along the same lines as this one. The concept of that you want to do is there. http://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/radio-field-conditional-in-afc_form/

In the pre_save_post function to do 1 your would include code in the if

if( $post_id !== 'new_post' ) {
    // change post status
    return $post_id;	
}