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
You need to write your hook for transition_post_status action: function authorNotification( $new_status, $old_status, $post ) { if ( $new_status == ‘publish’ && $old_status != ‘publish’ ) { $author = get_userdata($post->post_author); $message = ” Hi “.$author->display_name.”, New post, “.$post->post_title.” has just been published at “.get_permalink( $post->ID ).”. “; wp_mail($author->user_email, “New Post Published”, $message); } } add_action(‘transition_post_status’, … Read more
No script of function necessary. It’s actually built into WordPress. Simply go to your page to edit and on the right hand side you should see a widget labeled Publish. On the third line down, you will see an Edit button and you can set the date and time on when you want the page … Read more
As long as haven’t touched the slug WordPress will generate a new one after you entered a title. Update To change other peoples slugs use a filter (not tested!): add_filter( ‘wp_insert_post_data’, ‘prevent_numeric_slugs’, 10, 1 ); function prevent_numeric_slugs( $post_data ) { if ( ! isset ( $post_data[‘post_title’] ) or ! is_numeric( $post_data[‘post_name’] ) ) { // … Read more
The post gets added and published but since you have the meta query and the meta key is not added when you submit the post from frontend, it does not show up. Use the following code which adds the meta data as needed. if ( isset( $_POST[‘submitted’] ) ) { $post_information = array( ‘post_title’ => … Read more
Not mine but modified from here. But if you pop this into functions.php or a plugin it will work. add_filter( ‘gettext’, ‘change_publish_button’, 10, 2 ); function change_publish_button( $translation, $text ) { if ( ‘yourcustomposttype’ == get_post_type()) if ( $text == ‘Publish’ ) return ‘Save’; return $translation; }
publish_post conflicts with save_post
Since you aren’t able to use the out-of-the-box functionality (i.e. not publishing the posts!) you will inevitably have to cover yourself in a few different ways. You seem to have most of them covered – but a couple more ideas: The single post page itself. Assuming you are OK with the post never being visible … Read more
Save and Publish button not working after installing SSL
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