Create new post – title not saving

• mwalcott33

• August 19, 2016 at 5:53 am

I am currently trying to create a new post of the type books. The form shows on the frontend with all the correct fields. The issue is that when I update / add the new post it does not save the title. I found the code below on this page – https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/using-acf_form-to-create-a-new-post/.

I have also looked through other articles showing different ways to do this. According to the ACF documentation this should work, however I have had not luck yet.

Has anyone else run into this issue and know how to solve it.

Frontend Form Code

	$args = array(
		'post_id' => 'new_post',
		'post_title' => true,
		'new_post' => array(
			'post_type' => 'books',
			'post_status' => 'publish',
		)
	);
	
	acf_form( $args ); 

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• Tiarnan

• August 19, 2016 at 10:33 am

Hi MWalcott,

Have you updated to 5.4.2? There was a bug on the previous version that was preventing the title from saving.

Regards,
Tiarnan

• DACrosby, LLC

• September 3, 2016 at 12:28 pm

I’m running v5.4.4 and still experiencing this.

Is it documented somewhere where exactly the 5.4.2 issue/ fix was so I can check it on my install?

• John Huebner

• September 3, 2016 at 10:28 pm

I just tested this on WP 4.6 and ACF 5.4.4 and it’s working as expected. I don’t know if there was a bug in the version you were using, but there is nothing mentioned in the readme that a bug related to this has been fixed.

Do you have acf_form_head(); in the template/theme before get_header();

If that’s not it then try deactivating plugins and maybe switching themes to figure out if there is some kind of a conflict.

• DACrosby, LLC

• September 5, 2016 at 7:41 am

acf_form_head() helps with the actual saving of the form. For me the issue is that the post_title input field is displayed on the page without a name attribute set, so the data isn’t submitted with the form.

I did some more digging and for me, it’s an issue that appears strictly when the form is loaded via AJAX, so I’ve made a separate forum topic documenting it more fully, found here.