Questions tagged [wp-update-post]
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Update all WordPress posts's title and content then display them in a table
I am trying to update all the WP post title and content then show the just updated post to a table. I am using the following code but it does not work:
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'post',
'...
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Update around 200,000 posts
So I have recently migrated from a regular site to a wordpress CMS all via MySQL. I successfully was able to adapt the old database with that of WordPress.
Now, the site has content in 3 languages. ...
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Why wp_update_post() does not update GUID?
I'm trying to update GUID on a attachment. But somehow it's not working neither it's throwing any error.
Example Code:
$my_post = array(
'ID' => 45,
'guid' =&...
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Update status, meta while inside a post using AJAX button
So I am trying to click a custom button I made in a meta box the fire off AJAX. All works except getting the ID of the post and the refreshing of the page. I have tried using global $post; $post_id = $...
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2 pages falied to update after installing Gutenberg
I have been updating a ton of client's Wordpress sites to the newest version and all has been going smoothly except for this one. There are 11 pages on this site and all but 2 updated with no issues. ...
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How to automatic update date and time when save custom post type
I need to update date and time when I save posts.
I see the code on the following thread, but I need to have this trick only for posts contained in my custom post 'new_cpt'
Is it possible?
ref: ...
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How to update the children of a post?
i found nothing about it in the WP reference and Google, so i ask you: I want to update a post by a form - and with it its children.
$post = array(
'ID' => $mainid, ...
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Post meta data not showing in frontend, until hitting 'update' button
I try to insert around 2000 video-posts into WP. There is a custom field in the theme for the video-url, so I add the video-url to the post meta data with the corresponding field name. ACF seems not ...
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Inline style HTML attribute is being stripped from all elements of a post
I am attempting to publish HTML generated from an external party within Wordpress, but I am getting very inconsistent results with style attribute on all HTML elements, in that if I programmatically ...
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What's the proper way to use a custom table? [closed]
I manually added a table to my wordpress database using sql using CREATE TABLE. I want to add functions for adding, modifying, and removing the data from this table just like with wp_update_user().
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Can I edit the wp_post > post_content right before its inserted/updated?
I would need to apply some sort of encryption on whatever gets inserted in the wp_post > post_content, so I was wondering if there is a way, either modifying the core (rather not), or using some ...
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Programmatically create draft of existing post
Hi wordpress community,
What I am trying to do is programmatically create an updated draft (not live) of a published post - so that the changes will be recorded but not published.
Right now, my ...
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Frontend form with multiple posts
I've been researching frontend post-editing/creating forms, but I can't seem to find anything about having multiple forms on the same page. Please excuse my shaky understanding of POST methods.
Here ...
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recursively update content
the problem
I'm trying to translate a wordpress 4.7. But the site was consived in spanish and just now I installed the WPML plugin, now after 5000 post uploaded.
I am using the visual composer and ...
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Updating my Post when expiry date is past
I have done some more reseach and come accross the following article which does exactly what I want it to do. According to the writer, the code works but when I try and adapt it to my circumstance it ...
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Clear cache on post of one type when something happens to post of other type
EDIT: Based on @TimHallman's answer I have a follow-up question, please see the bottom of this post.
I am trying to do something that is way over my head and the more I think of it, the more ...
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When User Meta amended update Title and Slug of Post programatically
I have this code below which works perfectly, i.e. when adding a new User a post is programatically created in my CPT.
add_action( 'user_register', 'add_member_employees' );
function ...
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How to change post status from “draft” to “publish”?
My script uses code to set post content.
I am also running the WP To Twitter plugin, to auto-tweet those posts.
The problem is, whilst the plugin is correctly formulating its tweets using the default ...
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Bulk Post update_post_meta
how can use this code for update just post_meta ?
here my code :
function update_all_posts(){
$args = array('post_type'=> 'post',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'...
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Cannot update page - with too many characters?
I have problem with page update. I am tring to save more than 14230 characters. After "update" worpress is moving me to "Posts" page. I show this issue on this video: https://youtu.be/3Y8qgFEizBU
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wp_update_post ignores if/else
I have a function that publishes a post if it exists as a draft. But the wp_update_post function seems to ignore the if/else and runs before anything else.
$post = get_posts(array(
...
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update flamingo_inbound post type after insert
I'm having a difficult time trying to update the flamingo_inbound post author after insert.
Basically, I have a hidden field in CTF7 for the company name that is being sent over and correctly stored ...
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Mass Update lines of code for all posts
Bit of a conundrum today. I implemented some query string into my website so I'd like to retroactively update all my previous (600+) posts to update specific hyperlinks to include this query string.
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wp_update_post to set post IDs to drafts not working
Specifically WooCommerce Product Pages.
I'm using WP_Query to generate the array.
$params = array(
'posts_per_page' => -1,
'post_type' => 'product',
'orderby' => 'menu-order',
...
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$wpdb->update query incrementing value on it's own!
I want to get value of column and increment it by 1. After increment, update the value in column.For example: In column post_likes the current value is 4.
I am incrementing it by 1(like this $var++). ...
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Front Page post mirroring revisions to other pages, constantly updating itself
The site I'm working on has a very strange problem.
When any page is updated, the Front Page is updated with the same content.
Changing what page is set to the 'Front Page' seems not to matter. I ...
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How trigger to save post when updating post meta
I have very confused situation. I have added posts and all posts metas from one website db to another one, everything is fine, images, title, description of posts are there.
But post metas are not ...
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save_post affect creation and deletion
I wrote a little bit of code to update the post name and slug (of my cpt) when saving. This is working nice when I update a post.
I just noticed theses few lines are affecting the creation and ...
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Use /prefix/postname as a slug in post_name?
I have a custom field that I would like to use as the post's slug. I'm able to get the custom field to be used as the slug for the post but I'm having problems attaching a /prefix/ before the postname....
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How to update all posts but the current one (post__not_in not working?)
I'm trying to unpublish (set post_status to draft) all posts when a new one (with specific conditions that don't really matter right now) is published.
Here's what I currently have:
function ...
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how to transition to custom post status on post save
I'm trying to add a custom post status "Needs Review" for posts/pages that have been updated by an editor, so that admins can easily see what has been updated and review the changes.
The planned ...
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wp_update_post meta causing 500 error
I'm troubleshooting a client site on GoDaddy and I have this strange issue that when I try and run update_post_meta the server throws a 500 error accompanied by this error message: Fatal error: Call ...
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Update post date on every new comment?
I would like to update a post on every new comment, so that the Last Modified Date is always up to date on the sitemap.
How can i do this?
Thanks.
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how to update editor content from metabox
hello am trying to update and add editor content from metabox not using the default editor so i tried to use
wp_update_post($array);
but doesn't work it cause issue
Fatal error: Maximum ...
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Keeping post_date same as the pending post_date on privately publishing the post
I'm saving my CPT in private status. So the transition would be from pending to private. Thing is, when the post was first submitted and is pending there's a date of that submission on the post_date ...
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What does wp_update_post() do that the $wpdb class does not?
I recently had to make direct changes to my wp_posts table from a WordPress plugin. I first tried to do this with wp_update_post(), thinking that would would do it. Apparently, wp_update_post() is ...
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“Internal Server Error” with wp_update_post
I am coding a plugin for one of my sites which will toggle two pages statuses when a button is pressed. So when the ON button is pressed it will turn one page to draft while publishing the other, and ...
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What are the limitations of wp_update_post()?
I have two fields in wp_posts table that wp_update_post() seems to be unable to change. I'm trying to use the following code:
$echo $group_access;
$echo $tag_list;
$my_post = array(
'ID' ...
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Unable to modify(update) posts - Page not found
For couple of days I am experiencing issues with modifying some of my posts.
When I try to modify the content of post, I get 404 error, redirecting me that page is not found.
Doing Google research, ...
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Updating post_parent by id (many times)
How can I update post_parent by ids?
I tried:
add_action('init','updating_parent');
function updating_parent(){
$args = array(
'post__in' => array(208,51)
);
$my_posts = ...
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Is there a before_save_post hook or something similar
I need to check the value of a post status before is changed during a post update or even bulk update. And then depending on that value, adjust other values of the post
Example:
Lets say I have a ...
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Update button (sometimes) greyed-out
I'd say about 50% of the time when I edit a post the 'update' is greyed out. What I do is copy the mark-up, refresh then re-apply and publish which is a bad work-around because it doesn't address the ...
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why wp_update_post cant update when value is empty?
this runs successfully:
wp_update_post( array('ID' => $postid, 'post_content_filtered' => 'something' ) );
but this doesnt update:
wp_update_post( array('ID' => $postid, '...
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Change sticky status of posts from phpMyAdmin
I have many sticky posts in my database. Is there any SQL function which I could use from phpMyAdmin to change (remove) sticky status of posts, if post is sticky to change it to not sicky.
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Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_cache_get after update attempt
I received the following error after attempting to update my WordPress to the latest version Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_cache_get() in /home/fairmftt/public_html/wp-includes/option.php ...
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update a post with wp_update_post
I am using a wp_update_post to change the status of a post from published to pending using
wp_update_post(
array(
'ID' => $post_id,
'post_status' => 'Pending',
)
)...
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Can't update WordPress Page if post_content is Empty
I'm having an issue with WordPress where the Page isn't Updating if the Visual Editor is Empty. Here are the steps I am taking:
Go to Pages
Click on an existing page to Edit
On the Edit Page screen, ...
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wp_update_post() blank screen
i am developing in functions.php a function which, when a post in a certain category is created/edited, will create also a related page or update it if already exists.
The creation of a new page with ...
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How to catch and modify custom field values when a page is updated
I'm trying to find how to intercept the values in some custom fields on a page when they are being saved. I have searched and found out how to add a hook to the functions file to get the standard ...
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wp_update_post using post_name
Can I update posts using the post_name (slug) instead of the ID, as I don't have a list of the ID's, but I do have the list of the slugs and the corresponding changes for each one?
