https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/save_post-function-not-firing-on-user-submitted-posts Gravity Support Forums Topic: Save_post function not firing on user-submitted posts en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:37:26 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/save_post-function-not-firing-on-user-submitted-posts#post-68486 Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:24:01 +0000 Chris Hajer 68486@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thank you for the update. Glad that worked for you. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/save_post-function-not-firing-on-user-submitted-posts#post-68442 Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:07:25 +0000 moreslack 68442@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Nevermind. Looks like the solution was to use gform_post_submission instead of save_post. My guess is that the default setting for the post was overriding the save_post action. The following did the trick<br /> <pre><code>add_action(&quot;gform_post_submission&quot;, &quot;set_post_categories&quot;, 10, 2); function set_post_categories($entry, $form){ //getting post $post = get_post($entry[&quot;post_id&quot;]); //$entry[11] and $entry[12] correspond to the two custom fields that we&#39;re mapping to categories $cat_ids = array($entry[11], $entry[12]); wp_set_object_terms( $post_id, $cat_ids, &#39;category&#39;); //updating post wp_update_post($post); }</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/save_post-function-not-firing-on-user-submitted-posts#post-68440 Sun, 29 Jul 2012 11:35:43 +0000 moreslack 68440@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hey there,<br /> I have a similar issue as the open request at:<br /> <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/add_action-upon-post-published-with-custom-field" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/add_action-upon-post-published-with-custom-field</a></p> <p>We have added an action to the "save_post" action to update the post category based on values saved on two custom post fields (we need to support two different searching methods, hence the duplication of info on a single post). The code below works when we save a post through the admin UI:</p> <pre><code>function update_category($post_id ) { $cat_ids = array( get_post_meta($post_id, place_type, true) , get_post_meta($post_id, location, true) ); wp_set_object_terms( $post_id, $cat_ids, &#39;category&#39;); } add_action(&#39;save_post&#39;, &#39;update_category&#39;);</code></pre> <p>However, when the post is created through the Gravity Form submission, the custom fields are populated based on two questions mapped to those two fields, but the corresponding categories aren't updated. Opening the post as an admin and simply click "Update" without applying any changes causes the action to fire. Any idea what we might be doing wrong here?</p> <p>Thanks! </p>