I’m actually quite surprised WP hasn’t already implemented this. I want to add a Cancel button to the edit post screen which will do some cleanup when pressed. After a little playing while watching my tables, here’s some things I’ve noticed. A new post is created with a post_status of auto-draft. This is changed to … Read more
I found that Woocommerce is disabling autosave, maybe for good reason, but I’d like to have it turned on and see if it presents an issue. This is what I found in the __construct in their post type class, from wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/includes/admin/class-wc-admin-post-types.php…. // Disable Auto Save add_action( ‘admin_print_scripts’, array( $this, ‘disable_autosave’ ) ); Then further down … Read more
I recently read this tutorial about custom fields in WordPress and wrote a simple plug-in to provide a metabox with a set of input fields. I do not use the Meta Box plug-in promoted on the web site. My implementation for the save_post hook is as follows: function save_my_data( $post_id ) { if ( defined( … Read more
After saving a post I check the console and $is_autosave is simply not set function save_func($post_id){ $is_autosave = wp_is_post_autosave( $post_id ); file_put_contents(‘php://stderr’, print_r(“Autosave: “.$is_autosave, TRUE)); } add_action(‘save_post’,’save_func’); Output: Autosave: Technically since it’s not an autosave the result should be: Output: Autosave: 0 0
I have a custom Submenu page with my post type in which I am querying all posts and adding custom textareas and dropdowns that will repeat with each entry. The id and name for each field is the same accept the end of it is hyphenated with the post ID at the end. I want … Read more
As the title says, I want to trigger the autosave function of wordpress manually or just disable the “unsaved changes” dialog. The reason for this: I’m developing a plugin which reloads the post edit page after doing some stuff and it’s just annoying that the “unsaved changes” popup always pops up before reloading. 1 Answer … Read more
Setup: WordPress Add/Edit Post/Page A plugin that have its own postbox with several hidden fields. Issue: How these custom hidden fields can be saved along with the other post data within the Autosave feature? Thanks 1 Answer 1 I have just made a plugin that needed to be autosaved, so i started to dig into … Read more
I got stuck with one problem, can somebody please help.. 🙂 I would like to execute custom JavaScript function before post is saved, and i can’t find how to do that. Something like JavaScript version of save_post action hook 🙂 Thank you! 1 Answer 1 Do it like shown below, as suggested by @gyo and … Read more
My (shared) web host recently sent me this: “Our server monitoring systems keep indicating high server load persistently maintained by your website (…). Most of the hits are to the /www/www/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php script. We would advise the following: Do not stay logged into the WordPress dashboard through the day. Once you finish your work, you should … Read more
I’m just wondering is it wise to delete all post revisions and autosaves from database every once in a while? I mean they take a lot of database space and apparently have no use after the post has been published. 1 Answer 1 It all depends on your workflow. If you have no use for … Read more
