Getting the post_id after creating a post with acf_form()

• polsola

• September 29, 2016 at 1:49 am

Hello!
I think this may be simple to do but I can’t get it to work

I’ve created an acf_form() than creates a custom post on submit and redirects to a thanks you page, my question is, is there any way to get the new post_id there so I can display the info?

I see there is a acf/pre_save_post filter but I would need something where I can get the post_id and maybe store it to session meanwhile or something

Thanks!

• James

• September 29, 2016 at 4:25 pm

Hi @polsola

You should be able to do it by using the wp_redirect() function with the acf/save_post hook. But, you need to pass the ID to redirect URL like this:

function my_acf_redirect_after_save( $post_id ) {
    
    // Only do it for "custom_post" post type
    if( get_post_type($post_id) != 'custom_post' ){
		return;
	}
	
	// Only do it on the front end
	if( is_admin() ){
		return;
	}
    
    wp_redirect( 'https://example.com/thank/you/page/?postid=' . $post_id );

}

// run after ACF saves the $_POST['acf'] data
add_action('acf/save_post', 'my_acf_redirect_after_save', 99);

Then you can get the ID on the thank you page like this:

$post_id = $GET['postid'];

I hope this helps 🙂

• polsola

• September 30, 2016 at 6:12 pm

Hello James,

Thanks a lot it works! Just one thing, I have to add a die() after the wp_redirect() because if not it keep going to the ?updated=true

Thanks!