How do I change a field value from the front end?

• deset

• February 20, 2014 at 4:00 am

I have created a basic WordPress site that displays a list of tasks (Custom Post Type) that need to be done.

I have a checkbox field with the values “complete” and “incomplete”.

The front page displays a list of tasks that are incomplete. All complete tasks are displayed on a different page.

What I want is for a logged in user to be able to click a button under the post to change the task_status from incomplete to complete and then refresh the page.

Is this possible?

• Elliot

• February 20, 2014 at 5:35 pm

Hi @deset

You will need to write some custom code to make this work:
1. Add some jQuery to listen for a change on the checkbox field
2. On change, fire an ajax call to a custom PHP function
3. In this PHP function, update the value via update_field

Thanks
E