How to Trigger a Notification from an ACF Front-end Form
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If you use Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) and want to trigger a notification off of a front-end form, or edit a form after it’s been submitted but before the notification is triggered, you can do the following:
Create a custom page template that contains this code:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | acf_form(array( 'post_title' => true, 'post_content' => true, 'post_id' => 'new_post', 'new_post' => array( 'post_type' => 'post', 'post_status' => 'draft' ), 'field_groups' => array(24), // Change this to the field group that you want to show 'submit_value' => 'Create a new post', 'updated_message' => 'Post updated' )); |
Then add this to your functions.php file:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 | // Trigger BNFW 'Post Pending Review' notification on ACF front-end form save function bnfw_after_save_post_pending($post_id) { // Get the post object, post type, post status $post = get_post($post_id); $post_type = get_post_type($post_id); $old_status = $post->post_status; // Check if the post is the post type and status that we want if ($post_type === 'post' && $old_status === 'draft') { global $wpdb; // Remove the action that triggers the notification in BNFW $bnfw = BNFW::factory(); remove_action( 'pending_submissions', array( $bnfw, 'on_post_pending' ), 10, 2); // Update the post title with the 'text' custom field from ACF and trigger the notification manually wp_update_post(array( 'ID' => $post_id, 'post_title' => get_field('text', $post_id), 'post_status' => 'pending' )); } } add_action('acf/save_post' , 'bnfw_after_save_post_pending', 20 ); |
