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  • April 19, 2021 at 2:21 AM #27360
    FanomenalFanomenal
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    Is it possible for users to switch a post to draft or publish natively.

    Perhaps by creating a field on the form and writing some code in a hook like rwmb_frontend_before_process to change the post status based on the fields value?

    April 19, 2021 at 10:01 AM #27370
    Long NguyenLong Nguyen
    Moderator

    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/

    November 4, 2021 at 2:40 AM #31721
    KaraKara
    Participant

    Hi Long - can you help me out with the function to update the post status? Users should be able to change a status to draft or published based on the radio buttons.

    Here's the code for the radio buttons.

     [
                'name'     => __( 'Save As', 'your-text-domain' ),
                'id'       => $prefix . 'save_as',
                'type'     => 'radio',
                'options'  => [
                    'Draft'   => __( 'Draft', 'your-text-domain' ),
                    'Publish' => __( 'Publish', 'your-text-domain' ),
                ],
                'std'      => 'Draft',
                'required' => true,
                'inline'   => false,
            ],

    Thanks a lot!

    November 4, 2021 at 12:50 PM #31734
    Long NguyenLong Nguyen
    Moderator

    Hi Kara,

    You should use the choice value in lower case.

    [
    'name'     => __( 'Save As', 'your-text-domain' ),
    'id'       => $prefix . 'save_as',
    'type'     => 'radio',
    'options'  => [
        'draft'   => __( 'Draft', 'your-text-domain' ),
        'publish' => __( 'Publish', 'your-text-domain' ),
    ],
    'std'      => 'draft',
    'required' => true,
    'inline'   => false,
],

    And the code to update the post status is

    add_action( 'rwmb_save_as_after_save_field', function( $null = true, $field, $new, $old, $object_id ) {
    $my_post = array(
        'ID' => $object_id,
        'post_status' => $new,
    );

    wp_update_post( $my_post );
}, 10, 5 );
    November 4, 2021 at 8:23 PM #31737
    KaraKara
    Participant

    Thanks Long - that works perfectly.

    By the way - the capitalized "Draft" and "Publish" was produced when I generated the code using MetaBox AIO. I just manually changed it to use lowercase, but the code to update the post status worked for me either way.

    Appreciate you help 🙂

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