lunari

This is brilliant. Had no idea. Thank you!

It is a metabox old way. I’m into Gutenberg so will convert it later but need to up skill first a bit.

So inside the filter I check if isset($_POST[‘tax_input’]) and run the code posted above else I grab taxonomies from DB and set $data therefore save_post is clear of that code. Thank you.

“wp_insert_post_data” filter works great on Quick Edit. I get taxonomies from the $_POST and set the post status in the filter. But when I am on the full edit page I have no access to taxonomies as $_POST contains now different data than $_POST from Quick Edit inside the filter. Is that normal? How can I access taxonomies on edit post inside that filer?

function filter_handler( $data , $postarr ) {
        $temp = array();
        $taxonomies =  json_encode($_POST['tax_input']);
        $tax_arr = json_decode($taxonomies,true);

        foreach ($tax_arr as $key => $val){
            if(count($val) <= 1){
                array_push($temp, $val);
            }
        }

        if(count($temp) > 0 ){
            $data['post_status'] = 'draft';
        }
        else {
            $data['post_status'] = 'publish';
        }
      
        return $data;
    }