Hi,
I created a custom post type that I will use to build and send proposals.
I want the proposals to be password protected, the password being the email address of the client (value of a custom field).
Is it even possible?
It doesn’t matter too much if this isn’t great security-wise. I just don’t want proposals to be accessible by anybody.
This can be accomplished the same way that any WP post field can be changed based on an acf field.
add_filter('acf/save_post', 'post_password_from_acf', 20);
post_password_from_acf($post_id) {
if (get_post_type($post_id) != 'your-post-type') {
return;
}
$password = get_field('your-acf-field', $post_id);
$post = get_post($post_id);
$post->post_password = $password;
remove_filter('acf/save_post', 'post_password_from_acf', 20);
wp_update_post($post);
add_filter('acf/save_post', 'post_password_from_acf', 20);
}
Hi John,
Thank you for the quick reply.
I tested your code and it generates a critical error.
I checked for basic syntax errors and tried different things, but this goes beyong my php skills…
Ya, missing something very important
add_filter('acf/save_post', 'post_password_from_acf', 20);
function post_password_from_acf($post_id) {
if (get_post_type($post_id) != 'your-post-type') {
return;
}
$password = get_field('your-acf-field', $post_id);
$post = get_post($post_id);
$post->post_password = $password;
remove_filter('acf/save_post', 'post_password_from_acf', 20);
wp_update_post($post);
add_filter('acf/save_post', 'post_password_from_acf', 20);
}
Hahah indeed…
Thank you very much, it works perfectly !
Hi John,
One question; while the function works fine, it creates 2 post revisions on each save. I don’t really understand filters quite yet so i didn’t manage to fix the issue myself…
Yes, every time you update a post using wp_update_post() it generates a revision in addition to the one created when it is updated in the admin.
In order to prevent this you must remove the built in WP filter to save a revision
remove_filter('post_updated', 'wp_save_post_revision', 10);
and then add it back again
add_action('post_updated', 'wp_save_post_revision', 10);
It can get complicated depending on what revision you want to prevent. The one created during the normal update process or the one that is created when you manually call wp_update_post()
