Why are you changing $post[‘post_date’]? It should already be set correctly. If you want to force it to be the current date & time set it to’0000-00-00 00:00:00′
Thread Starter
mjpg
(@mjpg)
Thanks for your reply.
The problem I am having is that posts are being set to ‘Status: Scheduled’.
I am sending this type of email:
Post text here
tags: bbs
date: Nov 11, 2013
status: publish
:excerptstart
Excerpt text here
:excerptend
and processing it with the following, using postdate for a Post Expiration field and then attempting to re-set.
function add_custom_taxonomy_postie_post_function($post) {
// Check for categories and use in type
check_post_set_taxonomy($post,'post_category','type');
// Check for tags and use to set region
check_post_set_taxonomy($post,'tags_input','region');
// set the expiry date
$expiry_date = strtotime($post['post_date']); // Get date from post
$post['post_date'] = '0000-00-00 00:00:00'; // re-set post date to now.
add_post_meta( $post['ID'], '_expiration-date', $expiry_date );
return $post;
}
Any ideas why the post is not being published?
Is the date already being set and hence the scheduled?
Thanks
Thread Starter
mjpg
(@mjpg)
I just tried without
date: Nov 23, 2013
set in the email and it published.
So it is setting the date that triggers the scheduled which I know is the correct Postie action.
The post is being set with ‘post_status’ set as ‘future’. It does not seem to honour the:
// re-set post status
$post['post_status'] = 'publish';
in my function.
The question is then: how do I re-set the post status to ‘publish’ from:
postie_post_before?
Thread Starter
mjpg
(@mjpg)
Would postie_post_after be of any help to me?
Yes, that may help but you will need to call wp_update_post
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_update_post
I think what is happening is that WordPress sees a future date so it is changing the status to pending. It may not be possible to have a published post with a future date.
Thread Starter
mjpg
(@mjpg)
Note – this now applies to v1.5.16 running under WP3.7.1
Thanks Wayne.
postie_post_before and wp_update_post were not needed (and did not work).
The fix turned out to be unsetting BOTH $post[‘post_date’] AND $post[‘post_date_gmt’].
The final working code was:
function add_custom_taxonomy_postie_post_function($post) {
// Check for categories and use in type
check_post_set_taxonomy($post,'post_category','type');
// Check for tags and use to set region
check_post_set_taxonomy($post,'tags_input','region');
// set the expiry date
$expiry_date = strtotime($post['post_date']); // Get date from post
add_post_meta( $post['ID'], '_expiration-date', $expiry_date );
// re-set post date to stop WordPress setting post staus to future (scheduled)
unset($post['post_date']);
unset($post['post_date_gmt']);
return $post;
}
add_filter('postie_post_before', 'add_custom_taxonomy_postie_post_function');
Thanks for all your help and a great plugin.
Thanks for sharing your code!
