An administrator is normal the highest level of user in WordPress. If you want to approve every comments, even administrator comments, maybe you can use the moderation filter. If you go to Settings > Discussion Settings > Comment Moderation. You could setup an “cache all” filter. If you put all letters of the alphabet and … Read more
I had a colleague take a look at the entire plugin code and he found a function I had written which was forcing the query to only show ‘Published’ posts. This was interfering with the preview as it was being treated as a front-end query. I was able to bypass it by adding the parameter … Read more
It really depends on whether you want to restrict these new roles to a particular post type. If you search for “workflow plugins” you can find several ready-made solutions. Some only let the new roles edit Pages, some allow them to edit any post type. I built a site that needed users who could only … Read more
I recently was dealing with the exact same problem. I didn’t solve it, and we decided that since people had to pay a relatively large sum for their listings that they would be sufficiently incented not to post bad stuff. Plus it would be a pain to manually approve each one — people don’t like … Read more
you need to manually set the publish date.
I believe the file responsible is wp-includes/js/autosave.js. There is a dev version for easy reading.
I would probably create a custom field / check box for this for a draft stage. Then hook into post status transition (or around) and when post is published force it to only private, even if normal publish was pressed. From personal experience custom post statuses are a wreck. They seem like a good idea, … Read more
It’s possible to search within drafts by setting the post_status argument to draft in your search query, however, a better option is to control things with the arguments passed to register_post_type. We first set public to false, which will hide the post type everywhere- front and back end. We then selectively enable show_ui to get … Read more
You can do this without writing any code using WP CLI by chaining 2 commands together: the command to retrieve all posts from April 2017 or earlier the command to update all posts and set the post_status set to draft Retrieving All the Posts Before April 2017 We can use wp post list to do … Read more
It may be a little bit confusing, but there are significant differences: Publish – published post that anyone can see Future – post scheduled to be published Draft – incomplete post viewable by anyone with proper user role; it doesn’t have it’s permalink assigned yet, so you can view it only as a preview Pending … Read more