Save_post function not firing on user-submitted posts

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moreslack
Member
Hey there,
I have a similar issue as the open request at:
http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/add_action-upon-post-published-with-custom-field

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:
```
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, 'category');
}
add_action('save_post', 'update_category');
```
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?

Thanks!
Posted 11 years ago on Sunday July 29, 2012 | Permalink

moreslack
Member

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

add_action("gform_post_submission", "set_post_categories", 10, 2);

function set_post_categories($entry, $form){
   //getting post
    $post = get_post($entry["post_id"]);

   //$entry[11] and $entry[12] correspond to the two custom fields that we're mapping to categories
    $cat_ids = array($entry[11],  $entry[12]);
    wp_set_object_terms( $post_id, $cat_ids, 'category');

   //updating post
    wp_update_post($post);
}

Posted 11 years ago on Sunday July 29, 2012 | Permalink

Chris Hajer
Key Master

Thank you for the update. Glad that worked for you.

Posted 11 years ago on Monday July 30, 2012 | Permalink