Update post status on edit

• aaron91brimacombe

• January 16, 2023 at 8:12 am

I have two forms on the front end:

1- For creating a post and setting its status to ‘pending’
2- For looking at existing posts with status ‘pending’, these can then be edited and/or just saved

My issue: when I try to publish on form 2, I have the post status set to ‘publish’ this does not override the post status.

I have found some previous code for this and it works, however it overrides the status to ‘publish’ for form 1 as well.

Is there a way I can make this code run only for form 2 only?

<?php 

  function my_pre_save_post($post_id) {
  
    // check for numerical post_id and check post_type
    if (!is_numeric($post_id) || get_post_type($post_id) != 'post') {
      return $post_id;
    }

    // update status to publish
    $post = array(
      'ID' => $post_id,
      'post_status'  => 'publish' ,
    );  

    // update the post
    wp_update_post($post);
    
    return $post_id;
  }
  
  add_filter('acf/pre_save_post' , 'my_pre_save_post', 10, 1 );
  
?>

• aaron91brimacombe

• January 16, 2023 at 9:00 am

I worked out how to do this by adding the following code at the top.

This returns if the page is not the required page:

<?php
if (!is_page('page-slug')) {
    return;
  }
?>