I have a function on my site that it supposed to run when a new post is published (email push notification), with the exception of the same article updated (i.e publish_to_publish transition, I don’t want to send unnecessary push notifications) I know that I can use the {old_status} to {new_status} action hooks, but this means … Read more
I wrote the following function to change scheduled posts to published (I’ve got about 1000 of them). When I run the code below, the date change, but the status does not… Can anyone shed some light on this issue? This is the code I am using as of now: /* CHANGE PENDING POSTS TO PUBLISHED … Read more
I have added 2 post statuses to regular posts. They are “resolved” and “unresolved” – essentially basic tracking for issues. Both are registered as “public”. Posts from these statuses are displayed in the post RSS feed. However, comments added to posts with these statuses do not show in the comments feed. Comments added to regular … Read more
I’m making a magazine theme for a client and using a custom ‘issue’ taxonomy. There is a new issue every week, and I also have a function that get’s the latest issue. But the editor creates a new issue a few days before the articles for that issue are published. My current function uses max() … Read more
I am trying to identify the elements that WP uses to track that a user is logged in at any given time. (1) I know WP sets a COOKIE for tracking Does anyone know if WordPress also sets a _SESSION variable as well? Does anyone know if WordPress records login status in a DB Table … Read more
I am using EditFlow’s “custom status” feature for an event calendar plugin I am writing for a client. I’ve created a status called “previous events”, when a date has happened the events post_status goes from “publish” to “previous events”, as they would like to display previous events. The issue I am facing is that the … Read more
I have some code as plugin, which I call via AJAX from a page one the site. It gets two drop-down values and uses them in tax_query to fetch some posts. Question: why do drafts return amongst results by default? I need to uncomment ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’ to prevent this from happening. User is not … Read more
When I save my custom post_type ‘product’, I’d like to set their status to my custom status ‘incomplete’. 1 Answer 1 Hook wp_insert_post_data filter to force a post status to be set as incomplete before it can be set as published. With the following code only a post that is set as incomplete can be … Read more
I want to list recent published posts of my wp blog and exclude certain posts of some categories. The following code works fine, 10 recent posts are listed and posts in the listed categories are ignored. However, draft posts are listed as well. $args = array( ‘numberposts’ => ’10’, ‘tax_query’ => array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, … Read more
I’m using a function which I built to delete all posts from a user after a specific post is deleted. In my case I’m using a Custom Post Type called company. And additional Custom Post Types like jobs or events. If the company profile gets deleted, all other posts from this user are also deleted. … Read more
