Update/change modified author

• tabzam

• February 20, 2017 at 2:26 pm

Hi there,

I am trying to get the_modified_author after updating the post through acf_form frontend; but its always NULL;

But when i update through admin/wp-admin the modified author returns the right author;

I have tried searching everywhere but i can’t seem to find a solution to this;

Thank you,
Tayyab

• John Huebner

• March 5, 2017 at 2:15 am

_edit_last, is not a meta value that ACF sets when updating a post using acf_form().

This is something that you’ll need to set yourself using either an acf/pre_save_post https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-pre_save_post/ or acf/save_post https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-save_post/ filter.

There is a similar topic here https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/_edit_last-not-being-updated-on-when-using-frontend/

• traviskelleher

• June 27, 2019 at 2:32 am

Has anyone found out a way to update _edit_last in conjunction with acf_form?

If so care to share the code?

Thanks in advance!

• traviskelleher

• June 27, 2019 at 4:52 am

This is working for me, it updates the last modified author when editing from the front end.

Just add this to your functions file.

function user_acf_save_post( $post_id )
{
update_post_meta( $post_id, '_edit_last', get_current_user_id() );//update last modified by
}

// run after save post
add_action('save_post', 'user_acf_save_post', 10);