Title: Unknown Trigger Sending empty posts
Last modified: February 28, 2020

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# Unknown Trigger Sending empty posts

 *  Resolved [samdobrow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samdobrow/)
 * (@samdobrow)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unknown-trigger-sending-empty-posts/)
 * I have discovered a recent problem with BNFW. I am uncertain as to what is causing
   the problem but I have a guess.
 * I have one active trigger that sends emails when a new post is published. Something
   is causing an empty post to be triggered. There is no post actually made to WP
   but the empty template is emailed to the users as it a post was published.
 * I am not sure, but it seems to be triggered when a new user is added to the database
   or possibly edited. I am not using any of the known compatibility plugins. I 
   have not been able to duplicate the issue but it has occurred twice.
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 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Funknown-trigger-sending-empty-posts%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Jack – BNFW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voltronik/)
 * (@voltronik)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unknown-trigger-sending-empty-posts/#post-12497887)
 * Hi [@samdobrow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samdobrow/),
    Thanks for 
   your message.
 * It sounds like a theme or plugin conflict to me that is hooking into the `wp_insert_post`
   action. If you’re posting from the front-end then it might also be the insert
   post action is being triggered for the wrong post status too.
 * Does this help at all?
 *  Thread Starter [samdobrow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samdobrow/)
 * (@samdobrow)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unknown-trigger-sending-empty-posts/#post-12499646)
 * The strange thing is that nobody was doing any kind of post. I’m thinking it 
   might have been a malware bot action trying to make a post but I have Wordfence
   to block malware.
 * I cant match up any action on the Wordfence logs to the timestamps for the BNFW
   post trigger.
 *  Plugin Author [Jack – BNFW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voltronik/)
 * (@voltronik)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unknown-trigger-sending-empty-posts/#post-12502268)
 * Hi [@samdobrow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samdobrow/),
    That’s odd.
   I suppose it could be a log being generated my WordFence or perhaps a scheduled
   post causing an issue?
 * My advice at this stage would be to test with all plugins disabled to see if 
   you can replicate the issue with the bare-minimum of plugins required.
 *  Thread Starter [samdobrow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samdobrow/)
 * (@samdobrow)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unknown-trigger-sending-empty-posts/#post-12504134)
 * I haven’t been able to replicate the condition that triggers the email; but I’m
   carefully watching it.
 *  Plugin Author [Jack – BNFW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voltronik/)
 * (@voltronik)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unknown-trigger-sending-empty-posts/#post-12515078)
 * Ok [@samdobrow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samdobrow/). Let me know 
   how you get on.
 *  Plugin Author [Jack – BNFW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voltronik/)
 * (@voltronik)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unknown-trigger-sending-empty-posts/#post-12632855)
 * Closing due to inactivity. If you need further help with this, please feel free
   to re-open this thread.

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 * Last reply from: [Jack – BNFW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voltronik/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unknown-trigger-sending-empty-posts/#post-12632855)
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