Adding fields to an existing theme post submit form

  • Hello,
    I am a newbie, but I am not afraid to edit files. Anyways;

    I am working with a theme (I already asked the theme developer, but got no response) that has a submit custom post form in the FRONT END which is VERY limited. I want to add fields to this existing form with conditional logic, etc. I tried with ACF, Metabox, Piotnet Addons for Elementor and Formidable Forms, but clearly I must be doing something wrong because the fields added this way do NOT get registered by this existing form. Let’s say I want to add an ACF field. What would be the code so that this existing form registers the new ACF field and whatever value is entered for this field is recorded to the DB so it can be displayed in the front end and it can be edited in the post edit page. Any detailed help will be MUCH appreciated. Thank you.

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by GardeCan.
    • This topic was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Developing with WordPress topic
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  • Themes that you get from the WP repository are not allowed to do anything with custom post types (for the very reason you are finding…incompatibility and you can’t switch themes without losing it), and we only support themes from the WP repository here (each has their own forum actually).

    Advice you will get here: use a different theme and only themes that just display content, no plugin stuff. Then it’s your choice of plugin for the custom post types and how they look.

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