Unable to set title in ACF form created CPT post

• phil.owen

• July 21, 2019 at 8:00 am

I’ve created a form on a site which gathers info in fields then creates a custom post with all the fields.

I’ve got everything working bar 1 thing – setting the post title. The posts created have ‘no title’ and I’m stumped as to why. All the data submitted is present, but I just can’t figure out why one of the fields won’t set the post title:

Here’s the filter in functions.php :

function pre_save_post( $post_id ) {
    
    // stop function if not a new post
    if( $post_id !== 'new_post' ) {
        return $post_id;
    }
    
    // vars
    $name = $_POST['fields']['field_57c072a1a59c4'];
    $age = $_POST['fields']['field_57c06e718908c'];
    $date_of_birth = $_POST['fields']['field_5b0fedaf52688'];
  
    // Create a new post
    $post = array(
        'post_status'   => 'publish',
        'post_type'     => 'male_companions',
        'post_title'    => $name,
        'post_author' => $current_user->ID,
    );  

    // insert the post
    $post_id = wp_insert_post( $post ); 
    
    // return the new ID
    return $post_id;
    
}

All the POST fields work and save data fine, so I know they are correct, but I’m trying to use the $name for the post title.

Here’s the acf_form code:

 <?php
                if(isset($_GET['updated'])){
                    if($_GET['updated'] == 'true'){
                        echo '<p>The profile data has been saved.</p>';
                    } 
                } 
                ?>
                <?php 
                  acf_form(array(
                      'id' => 'my-custom-post',
                      'post_id'       => 'new_post',
                      'field_groups'  => array(65),
                      'submit_value'  => 'Submit',
                      'new_post'      => array(
                        'post_type'   => 'my_custom_post',
                        'post_status' => 'publish'
                      ),
                ));
   ?>

Like I say, everything saves fine but I can’s set the post title – am I missing something?

Secondly, is there a way to set the permalink from the new post too – like a sanitized field from the form – maybe the $name but with hyphens etc?

Thanks in advance

• James

• July 22, 2019 at 8:37 pm

Hi @phil-owen

If you are using the latest version of the plugin, you need to change your syntax to the following:
$name = $_POST['acf']['field_57c072a1a59c4'];
You may also want to hook into the acf/save_post filter instead of the acf/pre_save_post.

You can also change the slug by making use of the ‘post_name’ argument when generating the $post data.

I hope this info helps.

• phil.owen

• July 22, 2019 at 10:15 pm

HI @James

Thank you for you reply.

I’ve changed the syntax and also updated to acf/save_post. All still being saved correctly and the new posts created, but I still can’t get the title set.

Here’s how I’m trying to fetch it:

$cpt_title = get_field('name', $post_id);
  
    // Create a new post
    $post = array(
        'post_status'   => 'publish',
        'post_type'     => 'my_custom_post',
        'post_title'    => $cpt_title,
        'post_name'   => wp_unique_post_slug( sanitize_title( $cpt_title ) ),
        'post_author' => $current_user->ID,
    );  

But it doesn’t set the title and understandably the slug.

• phil.owen

• September 17, 2019 at 8:29 am

Any ideas on this? Still can’t get the title added from the ACF form.

• vverner

• September 18, 2019 at 2:50 am

Hey @phil-owen ,

Just to be sure, why don’t you use the default acf title on acf_form function? Something like that:

acf_form(array(
"post_title" => true,
[....]
))

P.s.: Sorry about my english