[Resolved] Cred Form associating with CPT

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[davidL-10]

Hi there,

Can you give me some more direction, please?

The situation is this: hidden link

This is a Directory of Wedding Bands.
(CPT = wedding-bands)
Bands will have a Biog, Band Logo, videos, all as post fields of the CPT.

Then we have Testimonials.
These are a child post type of 'wedding-bands".
Title, Content, Name of the person leaving the review and 5-star rating.
These can only be entered by the band admin. Not the public.

So,
Band Admins register as a custom User Role (Band Admin)
During the registration via the Cred Form, we worked with previously (Christian provided a Function), You helped me create a Custom Post Type for the Band when a user registers.

So the user is registered and the band Name FIeld in the Form is used to create a new CPT in the wedding bands CPT.

So far, All Good.

Now, the problem I am having is with Testimonials.
I have a Cred Form to Add Testimonials But I cannot associate it with the band.

I am using a page for the admin to add/edit testimonials called
hidden link

It contains a view called "testimonials-back-end"

In that View, I filter Testimonials like this "Select posts with the author the same as the current logged in user."

It shows testimonials and offers a link to a Layout to edit existing ones,
and a form to add new ones.
[cred_form form="testimonials"]

I am trying to get this form to tie new testimonials to the Wedding band.
I don't want a drop down for members to select their own band.

Is there a way I can get the Cred Form to know what band is relevant based on the User who is logged in.
I would like the testimonials to show - This Testimonial Belongs to Member Profile { the author's band }

I hope the screenshots make this easier to understand.

[Minesh]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

That means, we need to find "wedding-bands" post's ID based on currently logged in user ID and the "wedding-bands" post ID we find that should be setup as parent of testimonial - correct?

[davidL-10]

Yes, exactly.

Thanks for your reply.
David

[Minesh]

So, could you please share from where access details with one test case setup of user + "wedding-bands" post and share me access details.

*** Please make a FULL BACKUP of your database and website.***
I would also eventually need to request temporary access (WP-Admin and FTP) to your site. Preferably to a test site where the problem has been replicated if possible in order to be of better help and check if some configurations might need to be changed.

I would additionally need your permission to de- and re-activate Plugins and the Theme, and to change configurations on the site. This is also a reason the backup is really important. If you agree to this, please use the form fields I have enabled below to provide temporary access details (wp-admin and FTP).

I have set the next reply to private which means only you and I have access to it.

[Minesh]

Well - I tried to add the following code to your current theme's functions.php file but strangely its throwing error, I dont know why.

function func_get_wedding_bands_author_post_id()
{
global $current_user;

$args = array(
    'author' => $current_user->ID,
    'post_type' => 'wedding-bands');
$author_posts = new WP_Query( $args );

//if(count(($author_posts->posts) > 0){
	return $author_posts->post->ID;
//}

}
add_shortcode('get_wedding_bands_author_post_id','func_get_wedding_bands_author_post_id' );

What you should do is, query your post type "wedding-bands" by current logged in user and return the post ID you found.

More info:
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/109710/get-posts-get-all-posts-by-author-id

Edit your CRED form and add following field:

[cred_generic_field field='_wpcf_belongs_wedding-bands_id' type='hidden' class='' urlparam='']
{
"required":0,
"validate_format":0,
"default":"1111"
}
[/cred_generic_field]

Where:
Replace "1111" with the post id you found using above method.

[Minesh]

Ok - looks like there was internet issue and file not saved successfully.

I've added following code to your current theme's functions.php file:

function func_get_wedding_bands_author_post($atts, $content = '') {

global $current_user;
 
$args = array(
    'author' => $current_user->ID,
    'post_type' => 'wedding-bands');
$my_author_posts = new WP_Query( $args );

return $my_author_posts->post->ID;

}

I've added following code to your CRED form:

[cred_generic_field field='_wpcf_belongs_wedding-bands_id' type='hidden' class='' urlparam='']
{
"required":0,
"validate_format":0,
"default":"[get_wedding_bands_author_post_id]"
}
[/cred_generic_field]

Now, once you create testimonial, you will see it will be automatically attached to it's associated parent band profile. Could you please confirm.

[davidL-10]

This is amazing,
Thank you Minesh.

This will bring us to the finish of this project.
Thank you very much,

Kind regards

David