Publish vs Update

Beaver Builder
1

Hi,
I have an autoposter that differentiate when a post is newly published (publish wordpress button) and updated (update wordpress button). It doesn’t autopost when it’s an update and it’s the way I want it to react. Problem is when I update a post with BB (publish BB button) it’s seen by the plugin as a published post not an update therefore it pushes it to buffer to be posted on social networks. The plugin is “wp to buffer”
Any Idea?
Thanks

2

Hey Mohammed,

Just letting you know that we are looking into this and will get back to you shortly.

Thanks!

KC

3

Hey Mohammed,

Just letting you know I’ve already submitted a bug report for this. :slight_smile:

Ben

4

Hey Mohammed,

Unfortunately, it looks like this is a core WordPress issue. We’re actually using wp_update_post, which calls wp_insert_post, which eventually calls wp_transition_post_status in wp-includes/post.php and is causing the issue. That function has the following…

do_action( "{$new_status}_{$post->post_type}", $post->ID, $post );

… which fires regardless of if the post is actually being transitioned to a new post status or not. I believe that should be wrapped in an if statement to prevent this like so…

if ( $new_status != $old_status ) {
    do_action( "{$new_status}_{$post->post_type}", $post->ID, $post );
}

The use of wp_update_post is pretty standard and will cause this issue with any plugin using it. The plugin author should consider posting an issue in WordPress Trac. Sorry I don’t have a better answer. I’d be happy to discuss further if needed.

Thanks,
Justin