Need help on editing custom fields on the front end

• openbayou

• August 10, 2017 at 4:07 pm

Hi,

I need help on updating my custom fields on the front end. I’m trying to find a way to have what’s inside a custom field called ‘iad_author’ to be shown in the input and then have the user can edit the text and then save it back to the custom field.

The code I have so far:

<?php acf_form_head(); ?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php get_header('single'); ?>
<?php $title= the_field('iaf_author');?>

			<?php /* The loop */ ?>
			<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
				
				<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
				
				<?php the_content(); ?>
				
				<p>My custom field: <?php the_field('iaf_author'); ?></p>
				<input type="text" name="title" value="$title">
<?php update_field( 'iaf_author', $title, $post->ID );?>
				
				<?php acf_form(); ?>

			<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

What the code does now is the input field has ‘$title’ in the field and the data in that custom field is removed when saved.

Thanks for helping.

• James

• August 14, 2017 at 3:11 am

Hi @gschultz

To store variables from ACF, you need to make use of the get_field() function on this line:

$title= the_field('iaf_author');