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Hello,
I cannot save a new post using multiple acf_forms.
I am using acf_form in a customized style which requires me to split the form into a few different <div> elements.
According to the support forum I found that in order to do that you must define 'form' => false
in the acf_form() settings and add the form tag and submit input manually.
(Here it states it clearly)
I did that calling 2 different acf_form()’s with different field_groups, but after submitting the form it failed to create a new post.
What is strange is that when I tried it calling only 1 acf_form it worked perfectly.
<form id="post" class="acf-form" action="" method="post">
<?php acf_form(array(
'post_id' => 'new_post',
'field_groups' => array(8),
'form' => false,
));
?>
<?php acf_form(array(
'post_id' => 'new_post',
'field_groups' => array(64),
'form' => false,
));
?>
<div class="acf-form-submit">
<input type="submit" class="acf-button button button-primary button-large" value="Update">
<span class="acf-spinner"></span>
</div>
</form>
After submitting I didn’t find any errors.
Does anyone have an idea of why it would save 1 acf_form but not multiple?
Thanks.
I found the problem. But don’t know how to fix it.
After looking in the view-source of the page I found that there is a “form-data div” created for every calling of the acf_form function.
<div id="acf-form-data" class="acf-hidden">
.
Once removing all these divs except the first one using the inspection tool in the browser, everything worked perfectly.
The problem is that I don’t know how to define to the acf_form() how NOT to create unwanted extra data-form divs.
Have you tried doing a field group like this
<?php acf_form(array(
'post_id' => 'new_post',
'field_groups' => array(8, 64),
'form' => false,
));
?>
the field_groups take an array maybe thats the issue.
I have a page that consists of over 5 ACF forms working fine. You need to make sure that:
– all of your forms have the same arguments passed to acf_form
– use ‘form’ => false for all except one
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