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Prevent post from being published and show error

The argument syntax in your strpos() call is such that it’s testing the content for the literal string “$words” instead of the content of the $words variable. publish_post action hooks do not directly receive a post’s content as an argument. However if you use the provided arguments as detailed by the documentation, it is not … Read more

Set page to draft on plugin deactivation

I’m posting this as another solution for you and its based on the page id /* $post_id – The ID of the post you’d like to change. $status – The post status publish|pending|draft|private|static|object|attachment|inherit|future|trash. */ function change_post_status($post_id,$status){ $current_post = get_post( $post_id, ‘ARRAY_A’ ); $current_post[‘post_status’] = $status; return wp_update_post($current_post); } So once you have this function you … Read more

Is WordPress “publish” atomic?

It is definitely not. Publishing post is just a form submit and series of PHP function calls. When you close browser window that is treated according to PHP connection handling rules and settings. So if script terminates early the publishing process won’t be complete or rolled back to start either.

way to make all pages with certain tags public?

I am not entirely sure what you’re asking, so I’m going to stake a wild stab in the dark until you can provide more information provided I don’t tell you exactly what you wanted to know. If by public you mean; pages with a certain tag lets say for this example the tag is ‘public’ … Read more

Publish page by invoking submit via jQuery

Trigger the click event of the publish button instead, and let WP do the work. <script> jQuery(document).ready(function( $ ) { $( “#secondary-publish” ).click(function () { $( “#publish” ).click() }); }); </script> Don’t use language (it was deprecated in HTML 4.01!) – you can drop type too (WP now has an HTML5 doctype).

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