• amurray

• in reply to: Selecting Category from Frontend Form
• September 2, 2015 at 10:20 am

Jonathan – thanks for all your assistance and hope everything is ok.

Disregard this Post. I needed to check the save terms to post option for the taxonomy custom field

I did as you recommended and the taxonomy does now show the categories that can be selected but these are not put to the post once it is created. I mean the form creates the new posts but they still list as Uncategorized in the post info. The ACF taxonomy field is keeping the selection from the fronted form but I am looking to use the standard WP categories like under each post the theme lists the category associated with that post.

Thanks
Andy

• amurray

• in reply to: Selecting Category from Frontend Form
• August 29, 2015 at 9:13 am

Jonathan,

Any further suggestions on making this work?

Thanks.
Andy

• amurray

• in reply to: Selecting Category from Frontend Form
• August 26, 2015 at 10:21 pm

I have a page that has basically just this form on it. It is link directly from a menu button. If there are better ways to do this than I am open to suggestions. The pages works well for creating the posts and copying my title field & content field to the standard WP post fields.

It could be that the _Post lines in the template are not actually working and it is the ones in the function.php that are actually doing the copying from the front-end form to the WP posts. I did initially have issues with these fields not populating & did some searching to find the code that is in my function.php section.

Andy

• amurray

• in reply to: Selecting Category from Frontend Form
• August 26, 2015 at 9:54 am

Function.php

function acf_review_before_save_post($post_id) {
	if (empty($_POST['acf']))
		return;
	$_POST['acf']['_post_title'] = $_POST['acf']['field_558eb15c51fc7'];
	$_POST['acf']['_post_content'] = $_POST['acf']['field_558eb19c51fc8'];
	$_POST['acf']['_post_category'] = $_POST['acf']['field_55d73c0ee19e4'];
	return $post_id;
}
add_action('acf/pre_save_post', 'acf_review_before_save_post', -1);

Template for page with form

<?php acf_form(array(
 'post_id'	=> 'new_post',
 'new_post'	=> array(
   'post_type'	=> '',
   'post_status'=> 'publish',
   'post_title'  => $_POST['acf']['field_558eb15c51fc7'], // Post Title ACF field key
   'post_content'  => $_POST['acf']['field_558eb19c51fc8'], // Post Content ACF field key
   'post_category' => $_POST['acf']['field_55d73c0ee19e4'], // Post Category ACF field key
),
   'field_groups'   => array(317), // Create post field group ID(s)
   'form'               => true,
//'return'             => '%post_url%', // Redirect to new post url
   'html_before_fields' => '',
   'html_after_fields'  => '',
   'submit_value'       => 'Submit Post',
   'updated_message'    => 'Saved!',
    'uploader' 			 => 'wp',
    'return' 		=> '/'
   )); ?>

• amurray

• in reply to: Selecting Category from Frontend Form
• August 25, 2015 at 11:11 am

Yes I have ACFPro V5.

Andy