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
Just as @cybmeta mentioned, the info is stored in the post meta table. When we trash a post then the post meta key _wp_trash_meta_status is added with the value of the previous post status (publish, pending, draft, … ). Within the wp_trash_post() function, we have: add_post_meta($post_id,’_wp_trash_meta_status’, $post[‘post_status’]); add_post_meta($post_id,’_wp_trash_meta_time’, time()); We might therefore try: // Get … Read more
The user_status field isn’t used by core, so you could use it for your own purposes. Although there may be side effects if WP ever decides to reuse it in the future. The authenticate filter fires before the user is authenticated. You can hook into that filter and return a WP_Error object to prevent the … Read more
This function contains do_action() calls for post status transition action hooks. The order of the words in the function name might be confusing – it does not change the status of posts, it only calls actions that can be hooked into by plugin developers. https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_transition_post_status What you want is wp_update_post, you’re also using WP_Query incorrectly: … Read more
None of them. A, C and D all indicate that you’re inside a loop, and want the status for the current post. But if that’s the case then the first line on all of them is redundant. This is all you’d need if you want the status of the ‘current post’: $current_post_status = get_post_status(); get_post_status() … 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
Use the IN operator for arrays. When using $wpdb->prepare() you don’t have to use quotes around the string placeholder %s. The string placeholder will be quoted automatically. That’s also the reason why you have to take precautions when using $wpdb->prepare() with the IN operator if the array values are strings. This first example doesn’t use … Read more
Try passing it as an array. For example $args = array( ‘p’ => 1234, ‘post_type’ => ‘any’, ‘post_status’ => array(‘draft’) ); Or for all types $args = array( ‘p’ => 1234, ‘post_type’ => ‘any’, ‘post_status’ => array(‘publish’, ‘pending’, ‘draft’, ‘auto-draft’, ‘future’, ‘private’, ‘inherit’, ‘trash’) );