You can use one of the status transition filter hooks for this: {$new_status}_{$post_type} transition_post_status In the function assigned to the hook, you change the status to publish the previously featured post ( using e.g. $wpdb ). Both actions are performed after saving the post, so you have to change the status in posts other than … Read more
Found this snippet after more searching: //Force posts of custom type to be private //…but first make sure they are not ‘trash’ otherwise it is impossible to trash a post function force_type_private($post) { if (($post[‘post_type’] == ‘post’) { if ($post[‘post_status’] != ‘trash’) $post[‘post_status’] = ‘private’; } return $post; } add_filter(‘wp_insert_post_data’, ‘force_type_private’); Changed the boolean to: … Read more
take a look at Edit Flow plugin which offers a suite of functionality to redefine your editorial workflow within WordPress. Features include Custom Statuses
You can alter a post status after init by changing the global variable $wp_post_statusses: function alt_post_status() { global $wp_post_statuses; $wp_post_statuses[‘custom_status’]->public = true; } add_action( ‘init’, ‘alt_post_status’ ); register_post_status() (line 922) does the same thing: … global $wp_post_statuses; if (!is_array($wp_post_statuses)) $wp_post_statuses = array(); // Args prefixed with an underscore are reserved for internal use. $defaults = … Read more
Assuming you want to delete by date, here is a basic concept. You’d need to figure out when you want this to run, otherwise, as I commented above, you’ll end up with only 1 post if it runs repeatedly. Edit: Including parameter for a bit of safety <?php function doomsday_device($herd_thinning) { if(empty($herd_thinning)) { return; } … Read more
Few notes We can get the “Publish immediately” notice within the post_submit_meta_box(() when the post_date_gmt is equal to ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’. We can see here within wp_update_post() and here and here within wp_insert_post(), how draft-, pending- or auto-draft posts are not date stamped. It looks like if we had a filter on the post status array … Read more
The sticky posts info is stored in the sticky_posts option in the options table. It’s stored as serialized array e.g. a:2:{i:0;i:1272;i:1;i:1995;} You can modify it via the Options API but there’s a way to bulk edit posts in the backend: 1. Select the Sticky view: 2. Select all sticky posts and apply the bulk Edit … Read more
Ugggggggh. “post_status” => “published”, is incorrect. It should be “post_status” => “publish”, This apparently puts posts into a state of limbo in which they’re not visible in the list (but still counted for some reason).
You can use a “custom field” for marking the items as complete. These are also known as post meta fields. To set and read these fields, you’ll use the WordPress functions update_post_meta() and get_post_meta(), respectively. As for actually allowing users to set this flag from the frontend, AJAX seems like the best way. Check out … Read more
You can use the option API to set the blog_status and then display it. If you want to use blog description for the purpose you already have the UI available to set it from Setting->General and set the tag line to update your blog status. Then you can display the tag line anywhere in your … Read more