You can use the post type within the action name and you gain the removing of an unnecessary check of the post type. More on this wp_transition_post_status For instance: When publishing a post for the first time, the post status may transition from ‘draft’ – or some other status – to ‘publish’. However, if a … Read more
How is this possible? I can think of one possibility that for some reason ur page is getting auto reloaded. So the flow of execution is like: you access the page, your code gets executed changing status from draft to published, then some other code gets executed and the page is reloaded. This time when … Read more
I think it’s not the wp-config.php or .htaccess file you need to edit. The problem is web server related. search for php.ini file in your web server directory and there are some specific limits you may need to configure. like following keywords: upload_max_size’ , ’64M’ post_max_size’, ’64M’ max_execution_time’, ‘300’ I hope it helps and feel … Read more
Bulk Post update_post_meta
recursively update content
Thanks for your answers! Maybe I was a bit unclear, but I don’t use ACF, it is just a field that comes with the theme. However, this question and answers helped to find the problem: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34018588/wordpress-add-post-meta-data-doesnt-display-on-page-until-post-is-manually My WP metadata table entry was incomplete after creating a post programatically, the theme required another field. Saving the … Read more
get_children returns an array of post objects by default: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_children/ So you would have to use ‘ID’ => $child->ID, in this case… also my want to wrap the foreach with if (count($children) > 0) {} to prevent possible errors where there are no children. ie: $children = get_children( $mainid ); if (count($children) > 0) { … Read more
You mentioned setting the memory limits and execution time to unlimited, so this may not be the right answer. I thought I’d mention it anyway since it may help. Since you have so much content, you’ll have to find ways to accomplish this in the background rather than during the request. This is the perfect … Read more
For a process this large you are probably running up against timeout errors. You can either set your server’s timeout to a very, very large number (not recommended) or use a different process to achieve these results. Take a look at writing a command using WP CLI or adding a scheduled task to allow the … Read more
The correct way is to use WordPress Cron and schedule your event. Also you should consider adding real cron job as outlined here for better precision. 1.) I modified your draft_the_post function to support parameter. So now we can specify which post and also i updated the portion that checking the time. 2.) dg_cron_schedule_delete_posts will … Read more