WordPress Publish Post Hook
One of the best parts of WordPress is its hook/action system; this special hook system is WordPress' way of assigning callbacks when certain events occur. One event that there seems to be a lot of confusion over is which hook to use to detect when a post is initially published. There's the publish_post hook but that fires when you click the "Update" button after a post has already been published; that's not ideal.
Scour the WordPress documentation and forums and you're sure to see a dozen other solutions but none work as well as the transition_post_status hook:
// Add the hook action
add_action('transition_post_status', 'send_new_post', 10, 3);
// Listen for publishing of a new post
function send_new_post($new_status, $old_status, $post) {
if('publish' === $new_status && 'publish' !== $old_status && $post->post_type === 'post') {
// Do something!
}
}
The transition_post_status occurs when a post goes from one status to another; you can check out the post status list to see other possible values. I've also added a post_type check to ensure the post is a blog post and not a page.
Whew, took me a while to find what I needed here -- hopefully this saves you a lot of searching and pain!
Alternatives are
{$old_status}_to_{$new_status}, which takes one argument of the post in question and is a bit more precise and{$new_status}_{post_type}Well if a post is already published and we want to edit in such a way that its automatically go in the recent one !! then what is the best procedure for it ?
Hi !
THanks for the tips very useful !
unfortunatly, I can’t get this work,
it seems that the hook is only called when created a new post,
even with simple
function intercept_all_status_changes( $new_status, $old_status, $post ) { d($new_status); } add_action( 'transition_post_status', 'intercept_all_status_changes', 10, 3 );Do you confirm it works for you ?
Ok, I get assistance from WordPress forum :P
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Thanks again for your article !