How to provide an option to save a post as a draft

Created by Phil Kurth, Modified on Thu, 07 Jul 2022 at 02:30 PM by Phil Kurth

If you need to give the end user the option of controlling the post status when creating new posts using Advanced Forms Pro, you can set up a field with explicit options and use the value of this field to set the post status via the af/form/editing/post_data filter.

To facilitate the example below, we've set up an additional ACF field called Publish When which allows the user to select now or later. We've used a Radio Button field type for this example. In the hooked callback, we get the value of this field and set the post status dynamically.

<?php

add_filter( 'af/form/editing/post_data', function ( $post_data, $form, $args ) {

	// If we need to run this only on a specific form, check for the form key.
	if ( $form['key'] !== 'YOUR_FORM_KEY_HERE' ) {
		return $post_data;
	}

	// Get the selected post status from the submission.
	$when = af_get_field( 'publish_when' ) ?: 'now';

	// Set the post status.
	if ( $when === 'later' ) {
		$post_data['post_status'] = 'draft';
	} else {
		$post_data['post_status'] = 'publish';
	}

	return $post_data;
}, 10, 3 );