charge upfront before publishing post or page

Hi.

You can always “Award” a negative value for published content. If you do, each time a user publishes a post, he will loose points instead of gaining.

Yes, I know about this great feature. But it’s for “published” content.
What about before publishing ?

So you want to give points for draft posts or pending posts?

yes for charging / deducting

You could adjust the “Points for publishing content” hook to instead of awarding / deducting points for published content to deduct points for i.e. pending posts (posts submitted by contributors but not yet published) via the mycred_publish_hook_new hook.

Example: Change the hook to award / deduct points for pending posts:

add_filter( 'mycred_publish_hook_new', 'points_for_pending_posts' );
function points_for_pending_posts( $statuses ) {
	return array( 'pending' );
}

Hey, Great thanks !
Some users are allowed to publish content directly (no pending and without admin approbation) will the new “hook” work and charge points to these users ?

The above code will change the Points for publishing content hook so point will only be awarded / deducted for pending points. If you want both, you will need to create a custom hook that specialize in only deducting points from pending posts and not published.

ok got it – thank you