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Save selected item from dropdown menu in a meta box as a metadata value for a custom post type

I have been beating my brains on this one for days now and my Google-fu is failing me. I have created a custom meta box with a dropdown menu that lists all of the terms from a custom taxonomy. What I ...
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Trying to understand the action: save_post and an incomplete $post object

I begin with a fresh post (i.e., add New). I fetch (via Ajax) an image (read: src) from another site. In the process of saving (action: save_post) I want to PHP copy() the image to my local server and ...
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Strange / unexpected results with add_action('save_post')

As I'm sure plenty of you know already, 'save_post' will actually fire multiple times for a given save. Rather than copy / paste the same 12+ lines of code every time I need just a single fire, I ...
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Placement of Code in Plugin for hooking `save_post`

I ran into a strange Problem today developing a new Plugin. I set it up as usual, creating the f711-roomprice folder in the Plugindirectory, and creating the f711-roomprice.php as well as an inc ...
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How to get changed post title in my custom plug-in which fires when 'save_post' is called?

I created a custom WordPress plug-in that hooks onto 'save_post" using add_filter(). I need to do something with the post titles and whenever a user changes the title, my plug-in cannot get the new ...
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using new WP_Query in save_post function alters $post

I'm trying to include a WP_Query in a save_post function for a custom post type. The query is used to check all the other posts for a custom field bh_shortcode to make sure the content of the field is ...
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A Post is saved twice or more during add_action(save_post)

I have added a custom meta box for advanced information for a specific post category, to my create new post page. Now I recognize, that if I save the post, it writes 2 entries in the db with 2 ...
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Bug: Post needs to be updated twice when adding action for save_post hook

My function does exactly what I want it to do: I'm trying to add/update meta fields in another post type when an "events" post is saved. Except the post needs to be updated twice for the information ...
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Conflicting save_post functions when passing the post id and saving custom meta boxes for different post types

Post save functions are conflicting with each other when adding them to the save_post action hook. 2 different custom post types with 2 different (one for each post type) custom meta boxes. I'm ...
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help intercepting save_post through plugin

I use stackoverflow very often and just found out in google about this one, Nice :D Well, i want to save my every post i write from wordpress to my 3rd (OEXChangeble) website aswell at the same time, ...