publish_post action ONLY on publish, not update

  • Resolved thenameisnick

    (@thenameisnick)


    15 years, 2 months ago

    I have a series of functions that run when a post is published, but I don’t want them to run on any updates to that post.

    I tried testing the ‘post_status’ with:

    if (!$_POST['post_status'] == 'publish') {
do stuff
}

    but to no avail. Any ideas?

    Thanks!

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  • There’s probably a cleaner way of doing this, but

    if( ( $_POST['post_status'] == 'publish' ) && ( $_POST['original_post_status'] != 'publish' ) ) {

  echo "New post!";

}

    If you compare the original post status and the new one, that should show whether it’s an update or not ??

    Thread Starter thenameisnick

    (@thenameisnick)

    Kawauso, that seems to be working perfectly. Many thanks!

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