I have a form for registered users to submit a post from the front-end of my site. The post is registered in a custom post type, all works.
But now that I have to add a button for the user to delete the post, I noticed something.
In the admin panel, the author is the user, all good. When I pull the posts from that user on the front-end, all the posts are there, all good. But on that list, on the front-end, if I try to check the ID of the author, the one that is shown is the same as one of the admin's.
Apparently, that is preventing the user from deleting a post he created. When the user clicks to delete the post, the page refreshes, and nothing happens to the post.
So, my user has the permissions:
- 'publish_posts'
- 'delete_posts'
- 'delete_published_posts'
- 'delete_private_posts'
Here is the page that creates the post:
$title = $first_name_article . $tipo . $marca . $modelo;
$post_type = 'cadastro_anuncios';
if ( isset($_POST['publicar']) ) :
$postStatus = 'publish';
elseif ( isset($_POST['gravar_rascunho']) ) :
//draft can't be used here, hence we use 'private'
$postStatus = 'private';
endif;
//define the arrays for the new post
$idDoUsuario = $_POST['idDoUsuario'];
$new_post = array(
'post_title' => $title,
'post_status' => $postStatus,
'post_type' => $post_type,
'post_author' => $idDoUsuario,
);
//insert the the post into database by passing '$new_post' to 'wp_insert_post'
//store our post ID in a variable $postID
$postID = wp_insert_post($new_post);
$newTitle = array(
'ID' => $postID,
'post_title' => $title . ' - ' . $postID,
'post_name' => $title . ' - ' . $postID,
);
// Update the post into the database
wp_update_post( $newTitle );
Here is part of the page that has the form filled by the user:
<div class="btns-cadastrar-anuncio col-md-12">
<input type='hidden' name='idDoUsuario' value='<?php echo get_current_user_id(); ?>'>
<?php
if ( !in_array( 'loja', (array) $current_user->roles )):
wp_nonce_field( 'publicar','nonce_anuncio' );
?>
<input type="submit" class="btn-pub-ad cadastro-anuncio" id="publicar" name="publicar" value="PUBLICAR">
<?php
else:
endif;
Here is the code that generates the link to delete the post:
if ( $queryAdsAll->have_posts() ) : while ( $queryAdsAll->have_posts() ) : $queryAdsAll->the_post();
$idDoPost = $post->ID;
<a class="btn-base btn-ativo btn-apagar-anuncio" href="<?php echo get_delete_post_link( $idDoPost ); ?>">APAGAR</a>