I’m sorry but you’ve lost me now…
Thread Starter
mdumka
(@mdumka)
OK … here is the Scenario …
I have a published ‘About Us’ page. It’s post_status is ‘publish’. Its currently on revision 9.
This page is Live …
I then make an edit to the ‘About Us’ page, I change the post status to ‘draft’. It is now on revision 10.
When my users visit the site, currently the way WordPress works is my ‘About Us’ page would not be visible becuase it’s status is ‘draft’. I want to customize the loop to show that last page that had a post_status of ‘publish’.
So that way my users see version 9 of ‘About Us’ while I work on version 10 in private.
Ah – I see. I don’t think you can do this. When you set the post_status to draft, you over-write the ‘publish’ post status.
Thread Starter
mdumka
(@mdumka)
Ok …
So then to get on to that stream, where is the post_status set?
I am guessing that it happens any time a post/page/custom type is created or updated.
Now the question is … in what file does that happen?
Because if I can find that, I can modify it to not update the post_type and then it can be searched using our queries above.
Seems a lot of work, instead of keeping loads of revisions why not just keep the same page twice.
One published one as a permanent draft, when happy with the draft revision preview, just copy and paste the html to overwrite the published page and press update.
David
Thread Starter
mdumka
(@mdumka)
This is for a corporate implementation … and people want to see what a page is going to look like in context of the rest of the website.
I know this may sound strange but its a big requirement when using this as a CMS … at least for our company.
Ok then keep the page as published in page.php call a function to return the last post revision with the post parent with the post->id.
This is just mock code for structure, you want visitors to see the latest revision, logged in users or admin to see the published post.
The page will not appear in the menu until it is published, so switch to the last revision in page.php
UNTESTED:
<?php
if( !is_user_logged_in() ) {
$args = array(
'post_parent' => $post->ID,
'post_type' => 'revision',
'post_status' => 'inherit',
'numberposts' => 1
);
$revision = get_posts( $args );
if ($revision) {
$post = $revision;
}else{
rewind_posts();
}
}
?>
Not sure about this $post = $revision; or $posts = $revision; or $post[0] = $revision[0] as an array is returned.
Might not need the rewind when using get_posts()?
HTH
David
Thread Starter
mdumka
(@mdumka)
Wow … Let me take some time to soak this in … but this looks fantastic!
Thanks so much …
Mike
Thread Starter
mdumka
(@mdumka)
Ok … I am not sure I understand.
How would I set this up with the actual page … If ‘About Us’ has to be edited but not published … how would the previous revision be viewed?
Ah ok,
I read again the problem with using the post meta as a flag is that you would have to remember which revision you have it set on, or just find the first.
Lets say you had a custom field ‘published’, if this is set then that revision is ‘good to go’, again this is mock code and might have bugs!
Loop to find the first (latest) revision with a custom field of published with a value.
<?php
if( !is_user_logged_in() ) {
$args = array(
'post_parent' => $post->ID,
'post_type' => 'revision',
'post_status' => 'inherit'
);
$revisions = get_posts( $args );
if($revisions) {
foreach $revision as $revision {
if ( get_post_meta($revision->ID,'published',true) ) {
$my_post = $revision;
break;
}
}
}
}
?>
Then you would have to code to set the $post to my_post;
You could also code inside the loop to test the page meta, output the post and return!
Just bouncing ideas!
David
Thread Starter
mdumka
(@mdumka)
Ok … Mind has been swirling a bit and I think I have something but first … how is a page called?
So you have this page … http://example.com/?p=10 where the page/post ID is 10.
How does that get dumped into the loop?
