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  • June 16, 2019 at 10:49 AM #14973
    raphaelraphael
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    Hello,
    I've enabled MB Revision and it works great when I update a custom field through the admin panel but when I do it programmatically through update_post_meta, the change is not detected so there is no revision added.

    Is it Work As Intended ? Is there another utility function that would trigger the creation of a revision ? Another way to trigger it manually ?

    Thanks !

    June 20, 2019 at 3:07 PM #15014
    Anh TranAnh Tran
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    Hi raphael,

    The update_post_meta is the low level API for adding post meta, while the revision stays in higher level of the WordPress app. So, if you use update_post_meta, that's the expected behavior.

    I think trigger the creation of a revision can be done with wp_insert_post. Here is the docs for it: https://wordpress.org/support/article/revisions/#revision-storage-method. Strangely, I couldn't find a programmatic way to create a revision. Probably WordPress doesn't support it yet.

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