Front-end Form: Redirect after Save

• endcore

• March 17, 2014 at 8:15 pm

Hey guys,

first: i love this plugin, really.

i created a frontend from with the following function:

$args = array(
'post_id' => 'new',
'field_groups' => array( 14 ),
'submit_value' => 'Submit',
);
acf_form( $args ); 

and it’s work fine. Now, i will redirect the current user after submit the form. in your documentation i found the hook acf/pre_save_post and created this function for me:

add_filter('acf/pre_save_post' , 'my_pre_save_post' );
function my_pre_save_post( $post_id ) {
			
	$random = rand(0,999);
			
    if($post_id != 'new') {
		return $post_id;
   }
		 
	// Create a new post
	$post = array(
		'post_status'  => 'publish' ,
		'post_title'  => $current_user->ID.' - '.$_POST["fields"]['field_5326a5dde1c6f'],
		'post_type'  => 'eplan',
	);  
		 
	// insert the post
	$post_id = wp_insert_post($post); 
		 
	// update $_POST['return']
	$_POST['return'] = add_query_arg( array('post_id' => $post_id), $_POST['return'] );    
		 
	// return the new ID
	return $post_id;
	
	do_action( 'acf/save_post' , $post_id );
	wp_redirect( add_query_arg( 'updated', 'true', get_permalink( $post_id ) ));
	exit();
}

the post will be created but… no redirect, why? nothing happens.

Greetings
Christian

• endcore

• March 20, 2014 at 11:19 pm

push…

No one has an idea?

• StormTrooper

• April 25, 2014 at 10:48 pm

Bump. Also really need this.

• endcore

• April 25, 2014 at 10:52 pm

Hi StormTrooper,

this code works for me:

add_filter('acf/pre_save_post' , 'my_pre_save_post' );
function my_pre_save_post( $post_id ) {
    global $post;
	
	if($post->post_name == 'some-post') {
	    // Create a new post
	    $post = array(
	        'post_status'  => 'publish' ,
	        'post_title'  => 'some-title',
	        'post_type'  => 'some-post-type',
	    );  
	 
	    // insert the post
	    $post_id = wp_insert_post($post); 
		
		// update custom field
		update_post_meta($post_id, 'some-customfield', $post_id);
						 
		do_action('acf/save_post', $post_id);

     	//do_action('acf/save_post' , $post_id);
	    wp_redirect( '/some-page-to-redirect/', 301);
		exit;	
	}			
}

Check your site for Javascript errors if the function does not work… 🙂

Greetings
Christian

• StormTrooper

• April 25, 2014 at 11:49 pm

Hi Christian, thanks for getting back on this 🙂

I also just managed to get it to work by removing the $_POST['return'] line. So I ended up with this:

$post_id = wp_insert_post($post); 

    do_action( 'acf/save_post' , $post_id ); // Save the fields to the post
    wp_redirect( add_query_arg( 'updated', 'true', get_permalink( $post_id ) ) ); exit; // Redirect to the new post
    
    return $post_id;

you can also replace get_permalink( $post_id ) with a specific URL.

• slickorange

• June 27, 2014 at 10:33 am

Similar to StormTrooper’s solution – simply adding this to my theme’s functions.php file did the trick. (Not sure if it is the best / right way.)

function my_acf_save_post( $post_id )
{
    wp_redirect(get_permalink($post_id)); exit;
}
add_action('acf/save_post', 'my_acf_save_post', 20);

• gorostas

• December 20, 2014 at 1:31 am

Thanks @slickorange for code, simple and do the job!

• sub-lime

• January 29, 2015 at 1:04 am

   $post = array(
	        'post_status'  => 'publish' ,
	        'post_title'  => 'some-title',
	        'post_type'  => 'some-post-type',
                 'return' => 'custom url (www.whatever.com) or home_url'
	    ); 

From the ACF documentation

return The URL to be redirected to after the post is created / updated. Defaults to the current URL with an extra GET parameter called updated=true. A special placeholder of %post_url% will be converted to post’s permalink (handy if creating a new post)!

• YannickPian

• June 5, 2018 at 6:54 am

Thanks guys, it works great.

Question: how would you about create multiple forms on the same page?

I need to build a page with multiple tabs, each one has a button to create a new post in a different post type.
Example:
tab 1: <button>Create new store</button>
tab 2: <button>Create new employee</button>
tab 3: <button>Create new team</button>

Since the post type is defined in the arguments in PHP I cannot figure out how to make this dynamic, example: you click on tab 1 the post type for the presaved post will be “Store”, you click on tab 2 then the button saves an “employee”… and so on.

Any help will be welcome,

• kon12345

• April 23, 2020 at 8:09 pm

@endcore or someone i need some help immediately.I can’t redirect after user submit the form

<?php
acf_form_head();
?>
<?php
$args = array(
‘post_id’ => ‘new_post’,
‘new_post’ => array(
‘post_type’ => ‘corona_data’,
‘post_status’ => ‘publish’
),
‘submit_value’ => __(‘Αποστολή’)
);
acf_form($args);
?>

and my function in functions.php

add_filter(‘acf/pre_save_post’ , ‘my_pre_save_post’ );
function my_pre_save_post( $post_id ) {
global $post;

if($post->post_name == ‘some-post’) {
$post = array(
‘post_status’ => ‘publish’ ,
‘post_title’ => ‘some-title’,
‘post_type’ => ‘some-post-type’,
);
// Create a new post

// insert the post
$post_id = wp_insert_post($post);

// update custom field

do_action(‘acf/save_post’, $post_id);

//do_action(‘acf/save_post’ , $post_id);

wp_redirect(‘https://coronavirus.crowdapps.net/stoixeia-forea/&#8217;, 301);
exit;
}
}

• anasbrouk

• April 24, 2020 at 1:18 am

Hello, please how to display active events first then the expired events , i need code!

am using ACF 5.7.10

Screenshot :
https://imagehost.imageupload.net/2020/04/23/FireShot-Capture-024—Evenements—mesloisirs—www.creativejobgroup.com.jpg

please please help me , am beginner on ACF