Update post without changing its title

• mastafu

• May 27, 2015 at 10:55 pm

Hi,

I am trying to implement form to post, which will update this post with shop details.
This form is of relation type.

So I pasted this:

<?php
	/*
	acf_enqueue_uploader();
	$options = array(
		'post_id' => get_the_ID(),
		'field_groups' => array( 37 ), // Grupy z ACFa
		'form' => true, // set this to false to prevent the <form> tag from being created
		'form_attributes' => array( // attributes will be added to the form element
			'id' => 'post',
			'class' => '',
			'action' => '',
			'method' => 'post',
		),
		'return' => add_query_arg( 'updated', 'true', get_permalink() ), // return url
		'html_before_fields' => '', // html inside form before fields
		'html_after_fields' => '', // html inside form after fields
		'submit_value' => 'Zapisz', // value for submit field
		//'updated_message' => '<h4 class="alert alert-success">Zapisano</h4>', // Potwierdzenie.
		'field_el' => 'div',
	);
	
	 acf_form( $options ); */?>

And it almost works, almost because it also deletes my posts title.
So shop is added to the post, but title is being deleted.

What am I doing wrong here ?

• mastafu

• May 28, 2015 at 7:21 pm

I have notices that I have this function in my single.php

add_action( 'acf/save_post', 'my_update_existing_post_data', 10 ); 
	function my_update_existing_post_data( $post_id ) {

		// Update existing post
		$post = array(
			'ID'           => $post_id,
			'post_status'  => 'publish',
			'post_title'   => wp_strip_all_tags($_POST['acf']['field_5464a2a2d9a50']), // Post Title ACF field key
		);

		// Update the post
		$post_id = wp_update_post( $post );
	}

This is used to update posts title, but this also is used when editing with the form responsible for updating the shop details. And because of that I get my title empty.

Any idea how to make those 2 work together ?

• Jonathan

• June 18, 2015 at 7:12 am

Hi @mastafu

I think you could just do a check for the title value in your save_post hook and ignore the changes if it’s empty.

add_action( 'acf/save_post', 'my_update_existing_post_data', 10 ); 
function my_update_existing_post_data( $post_id ) {
	
	if(!isset($_POST['acf']['field_5464a2a2d9a50']) || $_POST['acf']['field_5464a2a2d9a50'] == '')
		return;
		
	
	// Update existing post
	$post = array(
		'ID'           => $post_id,
		'post_status'  => 'publish',
		'post_title'   => wp_strip_all_tags($_POST['acf']['field_5464a2a2d9a50']), // Post Title ACF field key
	);

	// Update the post
	$post_id = wp_update_post( $post );
}

Let me know how that works!