Reply To: Updating the post_status causing problem in the backend

• et3rnal

• October 25, 2015 at 12:01 am

Hi Jonathan,

After some testing I found that the second function is doing nothing!, everything going through the broken function (inc the status of a new post!), so i removed it.

now this is what I have in function.php using the codex link u posted

works perfectly fine

//for new and updated post status 
add_action( 'acf/save_post', 'update_existing_post_data', 10 );
function update_existing_post_data( $post_id ) {

	if ( ! wp_is_post_revision( $post_id ) ){
	
		// unhook this function so it doesn't loop infinitely
		remove_action('save_post', 'update_existing_post_data');
	
		// Update existing post
		$post = array(
			'ID'           	=> $post_id,
			'post_status'  => $_POST['acf']['field_55dd90c79e8a6'],
		);
		// update the post, which calls save_post again
		wp_update_post( $post );

		// re-hook this function
		add_action('save_post', 'update_existing_post_data');
	}
}

Please if you can see anything wrong with this point it out as this is not the first time I need to change this part again!.