Shortcode ACF frontend form

• buylov

• February 22, 2016 at 10:01 pm

I want to create a shortcode with attributes, which will display ACF frontend form. However, my code does not work. What am I doing wrong?

//-----------------------------------------------------
// ACF new post
//-----------------------------------------------------

add_shortcode( 'acfNew', 'acf_new' );
function acf_new( $atts ) {
     ob_start();
   // Attributes
   extract( shortcode_atts(
       array(
          'acfPostID' => '',
          'acfPostTitle' => '',
          'acfPostContent' => '',
          'acfPostType' => '',
          'acfPostStatus' => '',
          'acfPostReturn' => '',
          'acfPostSubmit' => '',
       ), $atts )
   );
    // Start
acf_form(array(
                 'post_id' => $acfPostID,
                                        'post_title' => $acfPostTitle,
                                        'post_content' => $acfPostContent,
                 'new_post'    => array(
                     'post_type' => $acfPostType,
                     'post_status' => $acfPostStatus
                 ),
       'return'     => '%post_url%',
       'submit_value'  => $acfPostSubmit
              ));
    // End             
    $html = ob_get_contents(); 
    ob_end_clean();
    return $html;
}

• James

• February 24, 2016 at 5:31 pm

Hi @buylov

I’ve just tested your code, and the form showed up as it should be. If it didn’t show up on your end, it’s possible because you set '' as the value. Please take a look at this page to learn more about acf_form() default value: http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf_form/.

I hope this helps.

• buylov

• February 24, 2016 at 7:55 pm

I want to display a ACF frontend form using the shortcode like this:

[acf-new acfpostidid=”new_post” acfposttitle=”true” acfpostcontent=”true” acfposttype=”post” acfpoststatus=”publish” acfpostreturn=”%post_url%” acfpostsubmit=”Public”]

How do I modify the code to do this?

• James

• February 25, 2016 at 3:37 pm

Hi @buylov

Here is an example to do it:

add_shortcode( 'acfNew', 'acf_new' );
function acf_new( $atts ) {
    ob_start();
    // Attributes
    $atts = shortcode_atts( array(
	'acfposttitle' => 'false',
	'acfpostcontent' => 'false'
    ), $atts, 'acfNew' );
    // Start
    acf_form(array(
        'post_title' => $atts['acfposttitle'] === 'true'? true: false,
        'post_content' => $atts['acfpostcontent'] === 'true'? true: false,
        'return'     => '%post_url%',
        'submit_value'  => $acfPostSubmit
    ));
    // End             
    $html = ob_get_contents(); 
    ob_end_clean();
    return $html;
}

You can use it like this: [acfNew acfposttitle=true acfpostcontent=true].

The $atts['acfposttitle'] === 'true'? true: false, is used to convert the string 'true' or 'false' into a boolean type.

Please learn more the add_shortcode() fucntion here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_shortcode.

Also, you can always hire a developer if you stuck with the issue.

I hope this helps.

• buylov

• February 25, 2016 at 6:06 pm

I understand the use of “true” and “false.” But how to use a dynamic value? For example, I have more than ten types of custom posts, and I just want to enter the name of the custom post type in the shortcode. For example, [acfNew acfposttype=”books”] or [acfNew acfposttype=”food”] or [acfNew acfposttype=”abc123″].

• James

• February 25, 2016 at 6:40 pm

Hi @buylov

Please learn the code carefully. Also, please learn more about creating a shortcode here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API. You also need to learn about PHP here: http://www.w3schools.com/php/. If you don’t want or don’t have time to learn them, please hire a developer to help you out with it. I’d recommend looking for one on https://studio.envato.com/ or https://www.upwork.com/.

shortcode_atts() is used to add default values to the attributes. So you need to set the default values from acf_form() in this function. Something like this:

$atts = shortcode_atts( array(
    'acfposttype' => 'post',
    ...

After that, you can get the attributes using the key like this: $atts['acfposttype'], so it looks like this:

acf_form(array(
    'post_title' => $atts['acfposttitle'] === 'true'? true: false,
    'new_post'		=> array(
        'post_type'	=> $atts['acfposttype'],
        'post_status'	=> 'publish',
    ),
    ...

I hope this makes sense.

• buylov

• February 25, 2016 at 10:28 pm

Thank you, my problem is solved!

• ashley

• February 12, 2019 at 3:20 am

Hi,

This is almost exactly what I was after, however it’s wrapping the form in pre and code tags. How do I render the HTML without these?

Many thanks!