Editing the post and saving it as a "draft" using acf_form (frontend ACF)

• flm1020

• May 4, 2016 at 2:21 pm

I have a question, how could I save the post as a “draft” after editing it? My code below doesn’t seem to work, the post still goes as published after I edit it in the frontend.

acf_form(array(
   'post_id' => get_the_ID(),
   'post_title' => true,
   'return' => '%post_url%',
   'new_post' => array(
      'post_type' => 'event',
      'post_status' => 'draft',
),
'submit_value' => 'Update event'));

Thanks.

• John Huebner

• May 6, 2016 at 10:29 am

Since you are not creating a new post but are updating an existing post you can’t use the new_post argument to make the changes.

What you need to do is create an acf/pre_save_post filter https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-pre_save_post/, this is a filter that is run during the save action for acf_form().

In your filter you’ll need to update the status of the post

add_filter('acf/pre_save_post' , 'my_pre_save_post', 10, 1);
function my_pre_save_post($post_id) {
  // test to make sure this is front end and the right post type
  // just in case
  if (is_admin() || get_post_type($post_id) != 'your-post-type') {
    return $post_id;
  }
  $args = array(
    'ID' => $post_id,
    'post_status' => 'draft'
  );
  wp_update_post($args);
  return $post_id;
}