Automatically trigger a new post when a new user is created

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Last updated by Ben 6 years, 1 month ago.

Assisted by: Nigel.

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October 7, 2018 at 4:24 pm #1122341

Ben

Is there a way to create an automatic trigger so a new post (of a certain CPT) is created when a new user is registered through a front end form?

October 8, 2018 at 12:17 pm #1122691

Nigel

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Hi Ben

For this you would need to use the Forms API, probably the cred_save_data hook (https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/cred-api/#cred_save_data).

This is triggered when a form has been submitted and the content created. The same hook is run both on post forms (when the post is published) and user forms (when the user is registered). The documentation linked to above assumes a post form (i.e. the first argument is shown as post_id, but it could equally be user_id).

Your code would use wp_insert_post to publish a post: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_insert_post/

October 8, 2018 at 12:34 pm #1122698

Ben

Thank you Nigel.

I will have a look into this now.