How to restore post to pending status (no draft)
The official documentation for wp_untrash_post documents a filter for setting the status that it will use: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_untrash_post/ This filter can be used to return pending instead as the status. If that’s not an option though, you could set the post status to pending after calling wp_untrash_post, it doesn’t have to happen in a single function … Read more