We currently use acf_form to have an front-end form where people can create a new post.
We want this to be done anonymously, without people having to log in.
Right now, u háve to log in, otherwise the script fails and it won’t do anything after submitting.
Is there a way to let people post something without loggin in on the front-end? Or is there a way we can force to say it has to be added to the user admin?
Hope someone on the forum has any idea.
Thanks
Hiya @jeffer
Posts always need to be assigned to an author. So what I’d suggest is create a user in your admin to whom these posts will be assigned – Anon User – or whatever you’d like to call them. Remember to make sure they’re of the correct role to publish posts.
Then in your acf_form function, specify this user to be the author of that post. In the args for your form, just add 'post_author' => 123 – where 123 is the ID of the user you’ve created.
Hi @markbloomfield,
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, I already tried it like that, and now again, but it still fails when a user is not logged in.
I get redirected back to the same page I already am on as soon as I use post_author in the array.
`<?php
$new_post = array(
‘post_id’ => ‘new’,
‘post_author’ => ‘9’,
‘field_groups’ => array(2023,2028),
‘form’ => true,
‘return’ => ‘%post_url%’, // Redirect to new post url
‘html_before_fields’ => ”,
‘html_after_fields’ => ”,
‘submit_value’ => ‘Melding plaatsen’,
‘updated_message’ => ‘Melding geplaatst!’
);
acf_form( $new_post );
?>
Hello,
Just letting you know, I also tried this code, which I took from the acf website:
acf_form(array(
'post_id' => 'new_post',
'post_title' => true,
'post_content' => true,
'new_post' => array(
'post_type' => 'hufter',
'post_author' => 9,
'post_status' => 'publish'
),
'return' => home_url('contact-form-thank-you'),
'submit_value' => 'Send'
));
(hufter is the post_type we use)
But even that is sending me back to the page I already am on, when I am not logged in, and when I am logged in; it does save the post but it does not assign it to the user (even though that user is set as admin so he can publish)
Have you tried creating your own acf/pre_save_post filter? https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-pre_save_post/
In this function, when setting the post values to insert the post you can set the ‘post_author’ value.
Hello John,
Actually yes, we have that.
I even tried to take a clean code now, from the link you sent, and added post_author, but even that does not seem to work, we keep getting returned to the form when not logged in
function my_pre_save_post( $post_id ) {
// check if this is to be a new post
if( $post_id != 'new' ) {
return $post_id;
}
// Create a new post
$post = array(
'post_status' => 'draft' ,
'post_author' => '9',
'post_title' => 'A title, maybe a dadadada variable' ,
'post_type' => 'hufter' ,
);
// insert the post
$post_id = wp_insert_post( $post );
// return the new ID
return $post_id;
}
add_filter('acf/pre_save_post' , 'my_pre_save_post', 10, 1 );
Hello,
I am completely stupid :). The issue has been solved.
I overlooked a function which had a return when a user is not logged in..
add_action( 'get_header', 'tsm_do_acf_form_head', 1 );
function tsm_do_acf_form_head() {
// Bail if not logged in or not able to post
if ( ! ( is_user_logged_in() || current_user_can('publish_posts') ) ) {
return;
}
acf_form_head();
}
Thank you very much for your help, above code was the issue and I removed it.
