acf_form: WYSIWYG form does not provide "featured image" option

• henningko

• October 1, 2014 at 9:34 am

Hi,

I am providing a front end form for a custom post type. Everything works fine, but unlike creating a post on /wp-admin/, the content editor provided through acf_form does not provide an option to declare an image as thumbnail/featured image.

Below are my settings:

acf_form(array(
            'post_id'       => 'new_post',
            'new_post'      => array(
                'post_type'     => 'project',
                'post_status'   => 'publish'
            ),
            'post_title' => true,
            'post_content' => true,
            'submit_value'      => 'Create a new project')
            );

Thanks for your help,

Henning

• tnchuntic

• October 3, 2014 at 10:37 am

Did you try to add a “support” attribute?

‘supports’ => array(‘thumbnail’)

Hope I did help you.

• henningko

• October 3, 2014 at 12:02 pm

Hi tnchuntic,

The Custom Post Type “project” has thumbnail support. It also works flawlessly when creating a new post in wp-admin, but not with the acf_form displaying the editor on the frontend.

Any other ideas?

Thanks for your help 🙂

• henningko

• October 14, 2014 at 11:55 am

Still was not able to figure out how to handle this, and I’m close to not using acf_form at all—any thoughts?

Thanks

• trainoasis

• January 18, 2016 at 11:16 pm

Ahh, I have the exact same issue. How to provide the featured image via acf_form ? Do I have to create a separate input element just for that and disable form and wrap it in my own? That seems tedious at best …

Did you figure this out perhaps?