Check to see if post is live before displaying the content

Question

I'm trying to pull the content from a post/page into a template file.

I'm using the following code, which works fine HOWEVER the content is pulled in regardless of whether it is set to 'live' or 'draft'.

Is there a way of checking to see whether the post is live before pulling in the content?

<?php  show_post('Offers');  // Shows the content of the offers page. ?>

Thank you

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Please note this function is being used...

<?php 
function show_post( $path ) {
    $post = get_page_by_path( $path ); 
    $content = apply_filters( 'the_content', $post->post_content ); 
    echo $content;
} 
?>

Answer 1

Your custom function show_post() uses get_page_by_slug() to retrieve the specified page.

Looking at source, it doesn't look like get_page_by_slug() uses post_status. So, you'll need to query $post->post_status within your show_post() function if you want to account for it in the function output:

<?php 
function show_post( $path ) {
    $post = get_page_by_path( $path ); 
    $content = '';
    if ( 'publish' == $post->post_status ) {
        $content = apply_filters( 'the_content', $post->post_content ); 
    }
    echo $content;
} 
?>

Answer 2

I think you should use this function

<?php get_post_status( $ID ) ?>

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_status

Then, you can check the post's status using:

<?php

if ( get_post_status( $ID ) == 'publish' ) {

    echo get_the_title( $ID );
}

?>

Answer 3

When you pull the posts from the database, make sure you set the post_status parameter to publish. Like...

$args = array( 'numberposts' => 5, 'offset'=> 1, 'category' => 1 , 'post_status' => 'publish'); $myposts = new WP_Query( $args );

'post_status' => 'publish', is the default if you use get_posts. I'd say this is the best way to do it since you'd be pulling fewer posts from the database.

If for some reason you do have to pull more than one post status, check $post->post_status before printing it.

if ('publish' == $post->post_status) {
    // do stuff
}