[Resolved] Set publish date of post

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[chrisH-10]

Tell us what you are trying to do?
I am trying to allow a user to create a new post (defaults to Pending Review) or edit an existing one. I want them to set the date/time they would like to schedule this for. I'd preferably use the standard publish date so the scheduling is all taken care of.

Is there any documentation that you are following?
I could not use the field using the CRED UI. Could not find anything relevant in docs. Found some old, tangential examples in a ticket that required a custom field and a PHP hook.

[Christian Cox]

Hi, there's no built-in publish date input in CRED, so you'll still be required to use a generic field and cred_save_data hook. I can help set that up if you'd like. I'm not quite clear on the Pending Review status and how it will be used. Is there an approval process on the back-end of your site? If so, how does that work with your delayed publishing time - what if the post is not approved before that time?

If there's no approval process, would a "future" post status work better?

[chrisH-10]

No worries about the status, we've eliminated the need for the workflow at the moment.

An example for the cred_save_data hook would be appreciated and I would think applicable to others. I thought I had seen one here in the forums, but I couldn't find it again.

[Christian Cox]

First, add a generic date field to your CRED form. Then you can use this code as a starting point:

add_action('cred_save_data', 'set_post_date_to', 100, 3);
function set_post_date_to($post_id, $form_data) {
  if( $form_data['id'] == 12345 ) {
    $newDate = $_POST['set-new-date']['datetime'] . ' 00:00:00';
    $my_post = array(
      'ID'           => $post_id,
      'post_date' => $newDate,
      'post_date_gmt' => $newDate,
      'post_status' => 'future'
    );

    // Update the post into the database
    wp_update_post( $my_post );
  }
}

- Change the form id 12345 to match your form.
- Change 'set-new-date' to match the slug of your generic date field

[chrisH-10]

Thanks, that works perfectly.

I made the minor enhancement below to also capture the user entered hour and minute.

$newDate = $_POST['wpcf-push_date']['datetime'] . ' '.$_POST['wpcf-push_date']['hour'].':'.$_POST['wpcf-push_date']['minute'].':00';