Use textarea instead of TinyMCE for post_content

• Krendel

• April 17, 2014 at 2:28 am

Hello!

First of all thanks a lot for the plugin!
I use Advanced Custom Fields version 5.
Today I successfully created Front end form to create a new post.
It uses WYSIWYG editor TinyMCE for post_content field. But I would like to use simple textarea for post_content field when Front end. Is it possible? How?

BTW I use version 5 because it allows to work with post_content and post_title very easily. And as far as I understand in version 4 I need to create fictive fields in Field Group for such purpose. And then use acf/pre_save_post filter to put data from these fictive fields to post_title and post_content. Am I right?

Thanks in advance for your support!

• Krendel

• April 17, 2014 at 4:14 am

Found the way by myself:

add_filter('acf/get_valid_field/type=wysiwyg', 'my_get_valid_field_post_content');
function my_get_valid_field_post_content( $field )
{
    if ( $field['name'] == 'post_content' )
    	$field['type'] = 'textarea'; 
    return $field;
}

But please reply to part 2 of my first message about difference between version 4 and 5 and how they work with post_content.

Thanks in advance!

• ucheng

• September 2, 2014 at 5:35 pm

Thanks Krendel for the answer.
For current version (I use 5.0.7), you need to use _post_content.

add_filter('acf/get_valid_field/type=wysiwyg', 'my_get_valid_field_post_content');
function my_get_valid_field_post_content( $field )
{
    if ( $field['name'] == '_post_content' )
    	$field['type'] = 'textarea'; 
    return $field;
}