Post Object Automatic Detection

• FailedSitcom

• September 18, 2015 at 5:39 pm

Hello,

I’m making a theme for a photographer, and have set it so that when he adds a photo it will create a Custom Post in Advanced Custom Fields.

The problem is that although the “Image Object” is populated, it doesn’t actually show the post on the page until you physically click “Update” on the photo page.

Is there a way to automatically update the post so that the Image Object gets generated without having to do this?

Here’s my code at the moment:

add_action('add_attachment', 'auto_post_after_image_upload'); // WordPress Hook

function auto_post_after_image_upload($attachId)
{

    $attachment = get_post($attachId);
    $image = wp_get_attachment_image_src( $attachId, 'large');
    $image_tag = '<p><img src="'.$image[0].'" /></p>';
    $field_name = "album";

    $forSale = "for sale";

    $string = $attachment->post_title;
    $album = current(explode("_", $string));
    $value = $album;
    $photo = substr($string, strpos($string, "_") + 1);

    $postData = array(
	'post_title' => $photo,
        'post_type' => 'photo',
        'post_category' => array('0'),
        'post_status' => 'publish',
    );

    $post_id = wp_insert_post($postData);

    // attach media to post
    wp_update_post(array(
        'ID' => $attachId,
        'post_parent' => $post_id
    ));

    update_post_meta( $post_id, 'image', $attachId );
    update_field( $field_name, $value, $post_id );
    update_field( $forSale, true, $post_id );

}

• FailedSitcom

• September 18, 2015 at 6:32 pm

Turns out using the field key solves the problem, so if anybody runs into anything similar try using that instead.