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check if a draft has been moved there from publish to draft

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As far as I can see, you won’t get any indication a post was previously published, as wordpress remembers only the old versus new transitions. I recommend you add some meta data, that is use add_action(‘publish_post’, ‘your_function’) (or similar) to do update_post_meta($post->ID, ‘post_published’, ‘on’). That way, every post gets an indicator when it’s published – … Read more

Tracing dashboard publish settings from input form in WordPress

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Those are some dangerous words “public…can enter data directly to the DB” You could write your own form and use wp_insert_post() Something like this: $new_post = array( ‘comment_status’ => ‘closed’, ‘ping_status’ => ‘closed’, ‘post_author’ => 1, // id of admin, or some other user ‘post_title’ => $_POST[‘title’], ‘post_name’ => $_POST[‘title’], ‘post_status’ => ‘draft’, ‘post_type’ => … Read more

Change event firing in wordpress

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Using transistion_post_status I’m able to retrieve post meta. add_action( ‘transition_post_status’, ‘post_published’, 10, 3 ); function post_published( $new_status, $old_status, $post ) { if ( $old_status != ‘publish’ && $new_status == ‘publish’ ) { $meta = get_post_meta($post->ID); echo ‘<pre>’; var_dump($meta); echo ‘</pre>’; die(); } }