Edit post from a different post, using Forms

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Problem: I would like to use Forms to edit a post, but I would like to display the Form on a different post.

Solution: Create a View that displays the post title for the post you want to edit, and place the View on the post where you want to display the Form. Replace the post title shortcode with the Form shortcode.

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Last updated by Christian Cox 6 years, 6 months ago.

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May 26, 2018 at 2:52 pm #904346

geoffD

I have a page called 'who-needs-a-will' that creates a CPT 'User Will'...I have written some code that only allows the user to create one 'User Will'...

Later in the site the user navigates to a page called 'marital-status' where they need to add additional details to their 'User Will' CPT.

What I can't manage to do is to bring up the same 'User Will' post to edit on the marital status page...

Please can you advise....it sounds like it should be simple..

Best wishes

Geoff

May 27, 2018 at 2:23 pm #904537

Christian Cox

One way to do this is to use a View that queries User Will posts, where the current User is the post author. The one result of that View will be the current User's User Will post. Inside the Loop Output of the View, insert the edit post CRED form shortcode or Edit Post link in the wpv-loop tags. Insert the View of User Wills in the Content Template or Template Layout for the Marital Status page.

Let me know if you have additional questions, or if I misunderstood what you want to accomplish.