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Add validation and error handling when saving custom fields?
I have a function that defines a custom field on a post type. Say the field is "subhead".
When the post is saved, I want to do some validation on the input, and display an error message on the post ...
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Why does save_post action fire when creating a new post?
I'm surprised by the fact that my function that I've tacked onto the save_post action fires when I click the "New Post" link in the Admin Dashboard. Note - this is before I've pressed Save or Update, ...
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Passing error/warning messages from a meta box to “admin_notices”
I have a simple meta box that updates the post custom fields (using update_post_meta()).
How can I send a error or warning message to the next page after the user publishes/updates the post and ...
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Return $post_id when DOING_AUTOSAVE?
I see the following pattern over and over, on this site and on other places:
add_action( 'save_post', 'wpse14169_save_post' );
function wpse14169_save_post( $post_id )
{
if ( defined( ...
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Why won't my metabox data save?
I have a custom post with a lot of meta boxes. I recently tried to add some dynamic metaboxes, using this question: Create more Meta Boxes as needed
I managed to get the metaboxes to add nicely, the ...
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Saving (Updating) Post / Page Edits With AJAX
One of the major frustrations while editing posts/pages is that after saving, two things happen:
The admin page is reloaded, which takes time
More importantly, the cursor position is lost
If ...
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Force post slug to be auto generated from title on save
I'm running a property site where many properties are sold in apartment blocks.
Because of this what the content editors do is create a post/property with all the details and then use a duplicate ...
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Prevent post from being published if custom fields not filled
I have a custom post type Event that contains a starting and ending date/times custom fields (as metaboxes in the post edit screen).
I would like to make sure that an Event cannot get published (or ...
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Have save_post write to database image meta [closed]
Programming rookie back again.
I have been studying the add_action('save_post','') but I am having difficulty getting it to work for my needs. The concept is simple - update the database information ...
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How to avoid infinite loop in save_post callback
I have been using this site alot for solving my problems, but this time I did not succeed in finding and answer for my problem.
I get and infinite loop when using wp_update_post inside a function ...
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Check before publishing, if already exist post with current custom field value
I have a custom post type with only 3 custom fields in it.
$post_types = get_post_meta($post->ID,'post_types',true);
$post_taxonomies = get_post_meta($post->ID,'post_taxonomies',true);
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Set custom messages for post update/save
I am trying to make a custom message instead of the default message when i save a post, does anybody know how to do it!
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Submitting posts from the front end - sanitizing data
I have a form that allows any registered user to submit a post (it's a custom post type - forum related), and I'm using wp_insert_post() to insert it into the db.
From what I've seen in this function ...
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Post Formats in the context of the Database 'Save Post' function
I am trying to pick up an in-depth understanding of how post-formats relate to posts 'in the database' - i.e. what meta information when compiled together constitutes a post format. And yes, I do ...
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unable to save post meta on single field with multiple selects
I set up two select boxes in one meta field by putting two arrays inside the 'options' array of my callback. The HTML is outputting fine, but the meta is not being saved to the database...
Here is a ...
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How to check what kind of saving it is?
I use save_post hook, and I have to know inside this hook function, whether it is a publishing ( draft to publish ) or is it an updating, like publish to publish or draft to draft.
Is there a way to ...
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Why is my custom meta box input not saving
I've added the following function to functions.php to add a custom meta box enabling the end user to input a gallery shortcode. I then intend to use this to place a gallery in a specific place on the ...
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Why can't I hook into save_posts after admin_init?
I'm trying to hook into the "save_post" action from an AJAX callback in my plugin, but it doesn't seem to work. In fact, hooking into "save_posts" only seems to work from a few key action execution ...
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Frontend posting - everything saves other than checkboxes?
I have a form on the frontend of Wordpress which is saving all fields except a checkbox array. It displays and saves the correct values if I tick the boxes in the backend post editor, and the ticks ...
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How to assign default taxonomy to pages on 'save_post'?
I try to assign custom taxonomies to a page when newly added by the "publish" button.
This is the function:
function set_default_object_terms( $id, $post ) {
if ( 'publish' === $post->post_status ...
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Post Auto Draft Issue
I've made custom post type without title and editor and I use custom taxonomies, custom fields and attachments to form a post. My title is generated from custom taxonomies and custom fields (or "ID #" ...
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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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Get the post_id of a new post
There are several ways to get the id of a post after it has been saved (auto, etc.), but is there a way to get the post id immediately after you create a new post?
I am trying to create a directory ...
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Retrieve 1st image in post and set it as featured image, when post is saved/updated
I need to set a featured image for every post I publish. So, when a post is published/updated, the script would scan the post for the first image using a script like this:
// Get URL of first ...
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Check for update vs new post on save_post action
Is it possible within the save_post action to determine whether it's a new post being created or an existing post being update?
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How can I pass $post object to 'save_post' add_action?
I have several functions that are called from inside a save_post function. However, all of the functions that use the $post object are returning incorrect values because it appears that the default ...
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How to verify nonce from Bulk/Quick Edit in save_post?
I need to do something specific in my save_post callback for bulk and/or quick edits, so how do I check the nonce for that? I can only find _wpnonce in the edit.php html source, but can't find an ...
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Disable the post save process completely
I need a way to disable the save process completely using an action/filter. Something that works (for e.g.:) in the query, posts_clauses or wp_insert_post/save_post/update_post hooks.
So far I only ...
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Is it possible to create a post using a metabox?
I am trying to create a post (well, in the end, multiple posts) from a metabox using the 'save_post' hook. I executed the script once, creating 3900 or so new posts before I crawled into posts.php and ...
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Better post meta efficiency?
I work with websites which require using Post Meta for Post Objects within a particular Post Type.
I often add a Meta Box to a particular Post Type, to provide additional settings for the new Post ...
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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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Faking the “onSave” event
While a specific use-case, I believe this may benefit others.
I am using TurboCSV to mass-import a number of posts into WordPress (which it is doing wonderfully so far). Within that import, I am ...
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save_post + insert_post = infinite loop
I'm trying to automatically create a new post when a post containing a certain custom field is saved - hooking an insert_post function into save_post.
This generates an infinite loop.
I found some ...
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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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Metabox saves on Update or Publish, but not on Saving Draft
I have created custom post types that also have custom meta_boxes I've created. Currently, they save when I publish or update a post, but they don't save when I'm in draft mode making changes.
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save_post requiere at least one uploaded file to be published
Is there a way to check the Published status of a post, and if it doesnt has at least one image or file uploaded, then change status of published to draft?
Thanks in advance.
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Action hook 'save_post' triggered when deleting posts
I developed a custom plugin which rewrite some content of my posts, but when i move a post to trash, the action hook 'save_post' is triggered and the post is not deleted.
A simplified version of my ...
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How can i create a function to get youtube video time
Tom J Nowell posted this code to help me retrieve the YouTube video time.
Functions
// function to parse the code from the URL
function parse_youtube_video_id_from_url( $video_url ) {
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Custom post type save_post action not firing
Sorry if this is already answered on here. I looked around and couldn't see any answers to my question so I thought I'd post my own.
I'm building a plugin for a client that gathers customer feedback ...
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How to create a front facing user sign up, log in and profile pages like FoodGawker.Com
Title: How to create a front facing user sign up, log in and profile pages like FoodGawker.Com
Body:
Hey everyone!
I'll be as direct and detailed as possible. :)
I want to be able to sign up ...
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Publish/Update post is changing image links from file url to post url
I've written a filter to wrap images included in posts with figure tags and their captions with figcaption tags. I turned off the visual editor so that it doesn't strip out all the html from the ...
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How can I set taxonomy programmatically
Here is my situation. I plan to distribute a theme I am working on and it has a custom post type called Code and it has a custom taxonomy called Languages now I also use a custom metabox with a ...
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Trigger “unsaved changes” dialog for custom post meta changes
I'm using a custom post type with custom meta fields, but autosave and the "unsaved changes" dialog don't seem to be triggered for these custom meta fields. Autosave isn't as important to me as the ...
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non-hierarchical custom taxonomy using checkboxes on edit-screen -> saving issue
I registered a non-hierarchical custom taxonomy ('property_features').
There is a checkbox for every terms of this tax in a custom meta box on the edit-screen.
All terms are displayed and all terms ...
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get_terms on save_post hook
Usually, if I want to check for some attribute of the post I'm about to publish, I will check like this:
$post_title = $_POST['post_title'];
post_title is the name of the title field in the edit ...
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Events: Check for other event with same start date and category
I am using The Events Calendar and (correct me if I'm wrong) there is no checking to see if an event has a time conflict with another event that's already been entered. For example, if there is ...
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Save modified Custom Field content into another Custom Field on article save [closed]
In my articles I allow editors to enter a date in a human readable dd.mm.yyyy format into a custom field. But I also need this date as unix timestamp in the DB. So I wrote a function which takes the ...
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Remove image from post_content on save_post
I'm trying to setup a function in functions.php that removes an image from the post_content on save. Everything works up until the time I'm trying to save the content, the page just hangs and I get a ...
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Compare custom taxonomies of updated post (or new post) [Updated with progress]
I am using the Transients API to cache category loops for a custom taxonomy. All works fine, but if I add a new post or update an existing one, I woud like to compare the taxonomy values and then ...
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save_post action doesn't passing post id to my function as argument
I'm adding a box to add / update post screen.
add_action( 'save_post', 'psd_upload_kaydet' );
add_action( 'add_meta_boxes', 'psd_upload' );
function psd_upload()
{
add_meta_box("psd-upload", "Bir ...
