Thank you for the response. It’s just semantics but post status is labeled visibility when using the block editor. I determined that the problem lies with this editor and the ACF plugin. It’s not validating on any status other than publish. They have acknowledged this issue and are investigating further; however, validation still doesn’t work when publishing a post with your plugin active. This is still most likely an issue with the ACF plugin but I thought I should add this detail.
The issue seems to be that the post visibility is set to private when publishing a post, not just for archived posts. Is this by design? Can I keep the default visibility for published posts?
I’m having the same problem. xmlrpc.php wait is 20+ seconds.