Front-end new post form – pre-populate fields

• bkno

• July 20, 2015 at 5:54 pm

Hi,

I have a repeater on my front-end form, is it possible to pre-populate the first row within acf_form’s new_post array? This is what I’ve tried:

'new_post' => array(
    'post_type'	=> 'mycpt',
    'post_status' => 'publish',
    'users' => 1,
    'users_0_user_email' => $user->user_email,
)

Minimum rows is set to 1. Doesn’t work but I’m not sure if any ACF field can be pre-populated this way or not, or if it’s just default WP fields that can be.

• John Huebner

• July 24, 2015 at 7:59 am

You need to use the update_field() function. http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/update_field/

There are details on updating a repeater. It is for a taxonomy, but it will work on a post as well, just use the posts ID.

YOu will need to do this in a pre save post filter, this is explained here http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-pre_save_post/

• bkno

• July 27, 2015 at 11:53 pm

Thanks John, much appreciated.