Title: Auto-Draft posts getting created Automatically
Last modified: February 1, 2023

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# Auto-Draft posts getting created Automatically

 *  [preetiusb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/preetiusb/)
 * (@preetiusb)
 * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-draft-posts-getting-created-automatically/)
 *     ```wp-block-code
       We have created a custom plugin where we are displaying posts list in custom format. I want to add a condition like if the current logged in user role is author and then he can see list of only his posts. If current logged in user role is admin/editor then he should be able to see list of all posts of all authors.
   
       I am adding here the snippet of our code -
   
                   function sort_posts_by_title_descending(){
   
                               var articles = [];
   
                               <?php
   
                           $args = array(
   
                                                       'post_status' => get_post_stati(),
   
                               'orderby' => 'TITLE',
   
                               'numberposts' => -1,
   
                               'order' => 'DESC',
   
                                           );
   
                           $posts = get_posts($args);
   
                           if ($posts) {
   
                               foreach ( $posts as $post ) { ?> // exit PHP
   
                                   var obj = {}; // Create a JS object
   
                                   title = "<?php echo esc_js(strval($post->post_title))?>";
   
                                   post_status = "<?php echo esc_js(strval($post->post_status))?>";
   
                                   obj['title'] = title;
   
                                   obj['post_status'] = post_status;
   
           obj['user_login'] = "<?php echo  esc_js(get_user_by('id', $post->post_author)->user_login);       
   
             ?>";
   
                                   obj['article_id'] = "<?php echo esc_js($post->ID) ?>";
   
                                   obj['post_author'] = "<?php echo esc_js($post->post_author) ?>";
   
                                   obj['post_date'] = "<?php echo 'Last Modified '.esc_js($post->post_date); ?>";
   
                                   <?php
   
                                   $user_meta = get_userdata(get_current_user_id());
   
                                   $user_roles = $user_meta->roles ? $user_meta->roles[0] : false;
   
                                   if ('author' == $user_roles && get_current_user_id()!=$post->post_author) {
   
                                                                               continue;
   
                                                                   } else { ?>
   
                                           articles.push(obj);
   
                                   <?php }
   
                               }
   
                           }
   
                       ?>
   
                       return articles;
   
                   }
   
       I have added the code which starts from $user_meta = . Whenever the page where lists of posts is displayed in custom format renders I can see that in database Auto-Draft post is created which is displayed on the page as well. But if I open wordpress default posts display page it doesnot display the newly created Auto-draft post there.
   
       I am not able to understand why a Auto Draft post is getting created because of addition of my code.
       ```
   

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-draft-posts-getting-created-automatically/#post-16431285)
 * Try including `'post_status' => 'publish',` as part of your query args. This 
   should be the default arg and you shouldn’t need it, but something else is altering
   the query var if you are getting auto-save posts. Hopefully that something else
   is coded well enough to not mess with explicitly set query vars.
 * If doing this does not help, you’ll need to either find out what’s altering the
   query vars and correct it, or hook “pre_get_posts” with a large priority arg 
   and set the query var that way. This should override what that something else
   is doing. However, doing so could negatively impact other queries where auto-
   drafts are needed. Make an effort to only alter your specific query and leave
   all others alone.

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 * Last reply from: [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-draft-posts-getting-created-automatically/#post-16431285)
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