Title: post_status
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# post_status

 *  Resolved [smartidu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smartidu/)
 * (@smartidu)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post_status/)
 * I was looking at the wordpress tables and in wp_posts table I found that there
   are 3 type of post status,
 * – publish
    – inherit – revision – any more??
 * I was wondering what’s the difference among these and how wordpress determines
   which one to show when a post/blog is viewed? For the same post, I found there
   are multiple versions with types publish, revision and inherit.
 * I was trying to create an extension but need to know how this works so I can 
   pull the correct/latest post uniquely.

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post_status/#post-1223002)
 * Post status:
    publish – A published post or page inherit – a revision pending–
   post is pending review private – a private post future – a post to publish in
   the future draft – a post in draft status trash – post is in trashbin (available
   with 2.9)
 * So post_status of ‘publish’ and post_type of ‘post’ for your query.
 * Review:
    [query_posts()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts)
 *  Thread Starter [smartidu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smartidu/)
 * (@smartidu)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post_status/#post-1223165)
 * Thanks for your help!
 *  [haikuotiankong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haikuotiankong/)
 * (@haikuotiankong)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post_status/#post-1223237)
 * thanks

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