[Resolved] Per user is allowed submitting one post only

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[Jeffrey]

Hello, A few days ago, I opened the same ticket, https://toolset.com/forums/topic/submitting-one-post-per-user-allowed/ but I changed something recently making the function no longer working, I have been working on this few hours, I think I am not able to fix it, so please help me with this again if possible. similarly, please send me a private link, I will share some description of what and where happened. Thank you so much!

[Luo Yang]

Hello,

Thanks for the details, I can login your website, please point out the problem page URL, where I can see the problem:
the function no longer working

And where I can edit your PHP codes, I need to debug in your website, thanks

[Luo Yang]

OK, I checked again the old ticket, and I have change the codes to below, please test again:

...
	  		$args = array(
			  'post_type'        => 'guest',
			  'author'	=> $user, 
			  'post_status' => 'any',
			  'fields' => 'ids'
			);
	  		$posts = get_posts($args);
            $user_post_count = count( $posts );
...

The function count_user_posts() only counts the published post, in your case, it needs to count post in draft status, so you can use get_posts() directly, more help:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_posts