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How can I make it so the Add New Post page has Visibility set to Private by default?

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since you’re developing a plug-in, I assume you don’t want to touch any files outside of wp-content/plugins or ../themes for that matter. However, if that’s not the case, follow along: Go to wp-admin/includes/meta-boxes.php and find: $visibility = ‘public’; $visibility_trans = __(‘Public’); Now change it to the obvious: $visibility = ‘private’; $visibility_trans = __(‘Private’); Again, this … Read more

Hide permalink and preview button and link on custom post

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You can accomplish the above using hooks. Use the code below in your active theme’s functions.php file to get this work delete permalink under wordpress post title add_filter( ‘get_sample_permalink_html’, ‘wpse_125800_sample_permalink’ ); function wpse_125800_sample_permalink( $return ) { $return = ”; return $return; } Customizing post link from original wordpress add_filter( ‘page_row_actions’, ‘wpse_125800_row_actions’, 10, 2 ); add_filter( … Read more

add action only on post publish – not update

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Like @milo pointed out in the comment, checking if the post meta exists is the easiest way to achieve what you want – like this: add_action(‘publish_post’, ‘wpse120996_add_custom_field_automatically’); function wpse120996_add_custom_field_automatically($post_id) { global $wpdb; $votes_count = get_post_meta($post_id, ‘votes_count’, true); if( empty( $votes_count ) && ! wp_is_post_revision( $post_id ) ) { update_post_meta($post_id, ‘votes_count’, ‘0’); } } → On … Read more

How to HIDE everything in PUBLISH metabox except Move to Trash & PUBLISH button

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You can simply hide the options using CSS. This will add a display:none style to the misc and minor publishing actions on the post.php and post-new.php pages. It checks for a specific post type as well since all post types use these two files. function hide_publishing_actions(){ $my_post_type=”POST_TYPE”; global $post; if($post->post_type == $my_post_type){ echo ‘ <style … Read more