Publish or draft post

• Elitaz

• February 7, 2021 at 5:35 am

Hi. I have got form created for members to publish post on front end. I am looking for way to make it possible to choose if you want to publish new post or save it as draft. I tried to look for solutions, but everything what I found didn’t work for me.

thank for help

• Elitaz

• February 7, 2021 at 6:37 am

I have tried this, but it does’t work.. post goes to draft only.

add_filter('acf/pre_save_post' , 'my_pre_save_post' );
function my_pre_save_post( $post_id ) {

	// check if this is to be a new post
    if( $post_id != 'new' ) {
        return $post_id;
    };

     // is checkbox field checked?
    if (isset($_POST['acf']['field_601ec86a16f23'])) {
    	$status = 'draft';
    } else {
    	$status = 'publish';
    }

    // Create a new post
    $post = array(
		'post_status' => $status,
		'post_type'   => 'post',
		'post_title'  => true,
    );

    // insert the post
    $post_id = wp_insert_post( $post );

    // return the new ID
    return $post_id;

};