UPDATE: I solved it, in a roundabout way.
I think somewhere either GeoDirectory or Ninja Forms is resetting the wp post or querry data.
I kept testing the form out with an additional Action to send myself an email with all the data being processed. In those emails:
Listing ID: {field:listing_id} – showed the correct post ID
WP Post ID: {wp:post_id} – showed “0”
Since the hidden Listing ID field is just populated with a default value of {wp:post_id} something, somewhere, is resetting the post_id. I didn’t have time to track it down, but PLEASE look into this because I imagine it must be affecting other functionality as well in ways I’m simply not noticing yet.
My solution for getting listing author notification emails to send out correctly was to add a hidden Author Email field with a default value set to {wp:post_author_email} and modify the Email Notification action to send to the corresponding field key {field:author_email_hidden}
So far this is working perfectly. Hidden form fields are pulling the correct post data, and using merge tags that reference the form fields is producing the desired result. However, I’d still love to know why/where the post id is being reset to 0, in case it ends up causing other problems.
I wasted three days on this and I’m pretty frustrated, but hopefully this helps someone else out.
Alex Rollin 5 years ago.
