Action hooks not working in Quick Edit

  • stacef

    (@stacef)


    14 years, 11 months ago

    I’ve built an event list plugin that also adds, updates and deletes events in Google Calendar. That interaction occurs using several action hooks, including ‘publish_post’, ‘publish_to_draft’, ‘draft_to_publish’, publish_to_trash’, ‘trash_to_publish’ and so on. And everything works in nearly all scenarios, the exception being Quick Edit changes.

    I’ve tried the afore mentioned hooks as well as ‘save_post’ and ‘update_post’, all of which I’m told should trigger when using Quick Edit. Here’s my test code:

    function mytestfunc() {
	global $post;
	echo $post->ID;
	$key = 'test';
	$data = 'this is a test';
	update_post_meta( $post->ID, $key, $data );
}
add_action( 'save_post', 'mytestfunc' );

    What am I missing here? There must be some way to trigger hooks from Quick Edit mode. Is it a Javascript thing? Any and all help appreciated!

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  • McBoof

    (@mcboof)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Same problem here. I can’t get save_post to fire when using Quick Edit. Help?

    havahula

    (@havahula)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    don’t know if you are both relying on global $post but when editing inline, it doesn’t appear that the global $post object is available so, you’ll likely need to set that variable manually like so: $new_post = get_post( $post_id ), where $post_id is passed by the hook to your function. so, stacef, your function would look like this:

    function mytestfunc( $post_id ) {
	$new_post = get_post( $post_id );
	$key = 'test';
	$data = 'this is a test';
	update_post_meta( $new_post->ID, $key, $data );
}
add_action( 'save_post', 'mytestfunc' );

    of course, if you’re checking for nonces and whatnot, you’ll need some additional conditionals to handle that but, essentially, this should get you what you want.

    One caveat — you will be receiving the updated post data so, if you were hoping to grab the pre-updated post data you’ll need to pull that from the $_POST array.

    hope that helps!

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