Broken Elementor-based post forms since 3.0.5 – help !

  • Resolved msevestre

    (@msevestre)


    3 years, 6 months ago

    Hi

    my site is using several frontend forms, based on Elementor built page + ACF Front end.

    Since ACF FE 3.0.5, I observed my existing frontend Elementor-based forms are kind of “pre-filled out” with some data coming from the form itself & having also some categories picker not behaving normally anymore, making the whole thing unusable.

    I tried to create a new ACF group made of Post Title + Content, created a new page with only an Elementor ACF frontend form object in it + added the new group:
    1) Post title field is filled out with the page name
    2) Post content field is filled out with the form HTML itself

    See capture:
    https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZ1PC0Z0CkSKesO0fRcyny4ezTL9mJqhAJV

    This is a real issue.

    Does anyone else had the issue and managed to solve it ?
    Does ACF Frontend team can help ?

    Thanks

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by msevestre.
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  • Thread Starter msevestre

    (@msevestre)

    Hi again

    additional information:

    trying to fill-out the (incorrect) form leads to a very abnormal situation, which may be interesting for diagnostic : fields are kind of affected to the Elementor items on which the page is built.

    I observed this to apply to :
    * ACF Field Post/Title (coming from ACF Frontend)
    * Article/Featured Image

    For sure it applies to other items.

    And when a user is submitting a new post from front end, it actually creates a new revision of the baseline page !

    Matt

    Thread Starter msevestre

    (@msevestre)

    Hi

    closed topic.

    Issue was coming from moving from ACF 2.x to 3.x and that migration was actually changing setting of post-based forms to Post Edit instead of Post New.

    Stupid to correct, but clearly a big issue at migration stage without user manual nor warning on things to check when moving from 2.x to 3.x

    Matt

    Great tip!

    Fixed the issue for me.

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