Updating custom post changes title to Untitled and puts the post in draft mode

Do you not have a post title field in the form? It should use that. I don’t know that it has been tested without that, so I may need to look at that.

The draft status is set by the form settings when you add a post title or description field to the form. Outside of that, this could be a topic that could use more exploration on our end as well.

Give me an idea how you are using it, maybe there is more we could do to help.

Hey jcow,

Thanks for getting back to me. I did try it with the post title and got it to work, if I was logged in. When I tried it w/out logging in, the values didn’t update.

As for the use case, I have various coordinators that need to update some custom field values, but not others. I do NOT want to give them access to the backend, nor do I want to train them if we did give them access. An update form seemed like the best option.

Sean

I will look into an option for updating posts without title or description, that might be possible, but I am not positive. Gravity forms uses those to know it is creating a post. But it might be.

More importantly, this plugin does NOT allow non-logged in users to edit a post by default, but you CAN enable it.

There are more examples and stuff currently on bitbucket:
https://bitbucket.org/jupitercow/gravity-forms-update-post

Specifically, at the bottom in your case is stuff about customizing permissions:

add_filter('gform_update_post/public_edit', '__return_true');

Considering this resolved. You need to create a title to create a post right now with Gravity Forms.