Publish new post & redirect issue

• martines

• March 12, 2014 at 7:08 am

Hello,
I’m trying to create a simple solution that will allow the user to publish a new post from frontend and will redirect them to the published post after all. I searched through the forums (and google)and I found some solutions, but none of them is working in my case.

All I get is that user is redirected to the published post, but it is empty (custom field values are not saved ?)

This is what I have in functions.php:

function my_pre_save_post( $post_id )
{
    // check if this is to be a new post
    if( $post_id != 'new' )
    {
        return $post_id;
    }
 
    // Create a new post
    $post = array(
        'post_status'  => 'publish' ,
        'post_title'  => 'title' ,
        'post_type'  => 'post' ,
    );  
 
 $post_id = wp_insert_post( $post ); 
 
 do_action('acf_save_post', $post_id);

$permalink = get_permalink($post_id);
wp_redirect($permalink);
exit;

   
    return $post_id;
}
 
add_filter('acf/pre_save_post' , 'my_pre_save_post' );

and on front-end page:

<?php acf_form(array(
                'post_id'  => 'new' , 
                'field_groups'  => array(177), 
            )); ?>

I’m positive that something is missing or that I did something wrong but I’ll be really grateful if somebody could help me. I’m not a php expert as well 🙂

• Elliot

• March 18, 2014 at 9:48 am

Hi @martines

You are using the incorrect action:
do_action('acf_save_post', $post_id);

should be:

do_action('acf/save_post', $post_id);

Please check the core/api.php source code for more.

Thanks
E

• meserlian

• April 28, 2015 at 6:31 am

Exactly what i was looking for all day 🙂

This really should up highlighted somehow.