How to check for Pending->Publish status for CPT in PHP?

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Last updated by jeffS-2 5 years, 6 months ago.

Assisted by: Luo Yang.

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May 6, 2019 at 7:33 pm #1240064

jeffS-2

I have a CRED form that is an application for new membership. When the form is submitted, it creates a new member's profile CPT post and sets it to "Pending" status. An admin must then review the application before accepting it and Publishing the new member's profile. When the status switches to "Published," I need to trigger another function in PHP. Assuming I can do this using post_save_data, how do I check for the CPT post_type and status=Published?

May 7, 2019 at 1:37 am #1240153

Luo Yang

Hello,

I suggest you try with WordPress Post Status Transitions action hook, for example:

function on_publish_pending_post( $post ) {
    // A function to perform when a pending post is published.
    if(get_post_type($post) == 'MY-CPT'){
// here do something ...
    }
}
add_action(  'pending_to_publish',  'on_publish_pending_post', 10, 1 );

More help:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Status_Transitions
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post_type/

May 11, 2019 at 1:54 am #1242438

jeffS-2

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!