Since yesterday the wp_scheduled_auto_draft_delete cron job somehow deletes all page entries from our menus. All entries in the table wp_postmeta with meta_key = ‘_menu_item_object’ and meta_value=”page” get deleted in the process. By tracing back the DELETE query I found out that the menu entries are deleted by a function called _wp_delete_post_menu_item. I got the following … Read more
I’ve made custom post type without title and editor and I use custom taxonomies, custom fields and attachments to form a post. My title is generated from custom taxonomies and custom fields (or “ID #” if nothing else is set). Here’s title code (could use some polishing probably): function custom_post_type_title ( $post_id ) { global … Read more
I’ve got a problem. I don’t want duplicate posts. Any way to check if a post already exists and if it does just set the new one to draft? I am using IFTTT to update my blog and sometimes it posts multiple times. 1 Answer 1 I have no idea what IFTTT is but you … Read more
I have created a front-end posting and dashboard system for my users to add and edit their own posts. In the dashboard area, I have a list of their posts and the following options for each post: View | Edit | Publish/Un-Publish | Delete I have all of these links working except for the “un-publish” … Read more
I have a holiday sale page that no longer applies as the holidays have past. I want to keep the page for future design reference. I do not want the page to be accessible from the Internet. I tried: Setting the page status to Pending Review Setting the page status to Draft Neither of these … Read more
Each of our posts are reviews for individual games and we occasionally have to ‘pause’ the game by changing it from published to pending review. The problem is if the page is indexed by search engines, anyone trying to visit the link will get a 404, which is obviously not desired. I’d like to instead … Read more
Last week our marketing team placed around 35 posts inside of draft due to some legal issues in our market. This week the same marketing team has reported that WordPress has somehow Published these posts automatically and taken them outside of draft status? Could some code, module, cron or something do this? 1 Answer 1 … Read more
I’m updating programmatically posts in a WP 3.01 install, using custom made tools. Sometimes I do change programmatically post_status from DRAFT to PUBLISHED using custom SELECT queries, however this seems spoiling posts permalinks. When in a DRAFT state, posts have the following link structure http://myblog.com/?p=73006 Could there be some “trick” to force a change in … Read more
Using WordPress 3.1 is it possible to completely disable the drafts functionality or at least remove the “Save Draft” button from the post screen? 2 Answers 2 If by draft, you mean “autosave”, you can consider using this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-feature-disable/ If you want to disable revisions, instead…try this: define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, ‘false’); You can put that in … Read more
I am running a website with WordPress 4.2 and have changed the way draft posts or posts in review status are displayed to non logged in users (these posts are, too, visible to anyone who visits the website). I have implemented this solution presented here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-filtering-query-to-allow-displaying-drafts-even-for-not-logged-users Now, while anyone can now access draft posts / … Read more
