I'm trying to automatically create a custom post (users
) upon registering a new user to my site. I'm just barely familar with php, but I've been working from another question from stackoverflow: Automatically create a post for each user using wp_insert_post
I would ideally love to create a page that carries over custom fields upon registering or updating user information. I've used ACF to create custom fields that are associated with; users (listed in the code as lowercase variables), and the to-be-created custom posts (listed in the code as uppercase variables).
function create_authors_page( $user_id ) {
$the_user = get_userdata( $user_id );
$new_user_name = $the_user->user_login;
$PostSlug = $user_id;
$PostGuid = home_url() . "/" . $PostSlug;
$member_bio = get_field('member_bio');
$contact_info = get_field('contact_info');
$member_affiliation = get_field('member_affiliation');
$my_post = array( 'post_title' => $new_user_name,
'post_type' => 'users',
'post_content' => '',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'post_theme' => 'user-profile',
'guid' => $PostGuid );
$NewPostID = wp_insert_post( $my_post );
$Member_Bio = $member_bio;
$Contact_Info = $contact_info;
$Member_Affiliation = $member_affiliation;
update_post_meta( $NewPostID, $Member_Bio, $Contact_Info, $Member_Affiliation );
return $NewPostID;
}
add_action('publish_members', 'create_authors_page');
Your hook is incorrect, use user_register action hook which fires after a user has registered and passes $user_id
as a variable:
add_action('user_register', 'create_authors_page');
function create_authors_page( $user_id ) {
// do your stuff
}
You can also use profile_update hook that trigger each time user update profile.