https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/update_post_meta-with-custom-post_type Gravity Support Forums Topic: update_post_meta with Custom post_type en-US Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:03:56 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/update_post_meta-with-custom-post_type#post-65083 Fri, 06 Jul 2012 16:51:04 +0000 Chris Hajer 65083@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Glad you figured that out. Thanks for the update. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/update_post_meta-with-custom-post_type#post-65079 Fri, 06 Jul 2012 16:20:02 +0000 Noel Green 65079@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Got it!!</p> <p>All I had to do was change the "$_POST" to "$entry".<br /> I don't know why I hadn't noticed that.</p> <p>Thanks for the help! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/update_post_meta-with-custom-post_type#post-64934 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:35:30 +0000 Chris Hajer 64934@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>"but it simply deleted all the entries"</p> <p>That seems sort of scary.</p> <p>For troubleshooting, I would start by determining if you can retrieve the post. Can you var_dump the $postID and log it, display it, or email it to yourself?</p> <p>Once you know you have the correct post, it's a matter of updating the post_meta, correct? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/update_post_meta-with-custom-post_type#post-64871 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:59:56 +0000 Noel Green 64871@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Any other thoughts on this?<br /> I've still had no luck. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/update_post_meta-with-custom-post_type#post-64734 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:42:04 +0000 Noel Green 64734@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>It is grabbing it... but it may not be grabbing it correctly.</p> <p>Meaning I can echo it onto the page, but when I added in what you gave it "updated" the post, but it simply deleted all the entries.</p> <p>Have a look...</p> <p>Here's the template page...<br /> <a href="http://pastebin.com/kUHyp19H" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/kUHyp19H</a></p> <p>And here's the functions page...<br /> <a href="http://pastebin.com/3L6TZk2m" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/3L6TZk2m</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/update_post_meta-with-custom-post_type#post-64700 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 07:34:32 +0000 Chris Hajer 64700@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I think the problem is that $postID will not contain the ID of the post. Should that be <strong>$post-&gt;ID</strong>? Otherwise, where does $postID get defined? Can you echo the value of $postID and see what it contains?</p> <p>Also, outside the loop, you sometimes need to use this:</p> <pre><code>global $wp_query; $thePostID = $wp_query-&gt;post-&gt;ID;</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/update_post_meta-with-custom-post_type#post-64677 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 01:36:03 +0000 Noel Green 64677@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I have a custom post_type called, "lessons" which has meta fields that I populate with a gravity form.</p> <p>I then have a "duplicate" of the form that loads on a separate page and dynamically populates the content with the meta information and is supposed to let people update the post.</p> <p>I have a gform_after_submission hook to update the meta data, but because it's a custom post_type it's not working.</p> <p>Here's what I have for the function to update the meta...</p> <pre><code>function gf_edit_plans( $entry, $form ) { global $post; $monday_lesson = $_POST[&#39;20&#39;]; update_post_meta($postID, &#39;monday_lesson&#39;, $monday_lesson ); } add_action( &#39;gform_after_submission_10&#39;, &#39;gf_edit_plans&#39;, 10, 2 );</code></pre> <p>Any ideas?<br /> I've been racking my brain on this one for hours!!</p> <p>Thanks. </p>