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Any ideas of how to add a Save as Draft option?

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  • June 29, 2021 at 4:40 AM #29189
    Stephen C.Stephen C.
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    I need to be able to give the user the option of saving their submission as a draft if they aren't ready to submit for approval. I know Meta Box doesn't have a way to do this natively, so I need a workaround. Any thoughts on how to accomplish this? A button next to the submit button that says "Save as Draft", but as far as I can tell, there's no way to do that.

    Right now, I'm thinking of adding a switch field that says "Save as Draft" and then if selected, use the rwmb_after_save_post action to change the status to draft if the submission hasn't already been published.

    Any other ideas that might work or look better?

    Thanks

    June 29, 2021 at 7:26 AM #29191
    Stephen C.Stephen C.
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    Also, is there a way to only show a Meta Box if it's a new post or the post_status is "draft"?

    June 29, 2021 at 8:44 AM #29193
    Stephen C.Stephen C.
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    Okay, I was able to use Include/Exclude to include the Meta Box only when it's a new post or the post_status is "draft".

    June 29, 2021 at 10:12 AM #29199
    Long NguyenLong Nguyen
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    Hi,

    It is possible. You can use the function wp_update_post() to update the post status after submitting a post on the frontend.

    Refer to this topic https://support.metabox.io/topic/selecting-post-formats/

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