[wp-hackers] do I need to register custom post_status-es?

[Mike Schinkel]

Davit,

After sending that email I feared you might confuse the reason I sent the second link. The first link explains that post_status is private and that you (may) need to set it in manage_pages_query. The second link shows you an example manage_pages_query.  I wasn't 100% sure of this solution so I offered it up by saying "I think..." assuming it would give you what you need to solve the problem.

Before replying today I decided to track down an actual solution. It seems that information I gave might have been was wrong though I still don't fully understand that area of the code. Sorry for the prior inadvertent misdirection but the best I've been able to tell is that maybe you haven't run register_post_status() in your plugin or theme's functions.php file?, i.e.:

	register_post_status('active');  

When I run this query without registering the active status I get all posts, regardless of status:

	$q = new WP_Query('post_type=post&post_status=active');

After registering I only get the one 'active' post I added for testing.

HTH; let me know if not.

-Mike
P.S. I tested on a version of wp.30 so maybe it's not what you need for wp2.9...


On Mar 26, 2010, at 7:44 AM, Davit Barbakadze wrote:

> Hi Mike,
> 
> Thanks, but I do not actually use or need to use either meta_value or
> meta_key. I just can't filter my custom type posts, by custom
> post_status fields.
> 
> :(
> 
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Mike Schinkel
> <mikeschinkel at newclarity.net> wrote:
>> Davit:
>> 
>> On Mar 24, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Davit Barbakadze wrote:
>>> I'm using the following code to retrieve custom post_type-es:
>>> 
>>> $wp_query = new
>>> WP_Query("post_type=event&post_status=$post_status&posts_per_page=15&paged=$paged{$search}");
>>> 
>>> Quoted line resolves for example to:
>>> post_type=event&post_status=active&posts_per_page=15&paged=1 (string
>>> has been printed out not just made up).
>>> 
>>> Although while I have specific post_status defined, for some
>>> reason it does fetch all of the posts with post_type=event, no matter
>>> are they marked as active in post_status or - inactive. Not sure what
>>> could be the reason. For post_status - trash it filters them as
>>> expected. Do I need to register custom post_status-es
>>> maybe?
>> 
>> I think these two pages might hold your answers:
>> 
>> --------------------
>> http://osdir.com/ml/wordpress-hackers/2010-01/msg00233.html
>> --------------------
>> "Bear in mind that the wp() call only accept query vars which are specified in the $public_query_vars and $private_query_vars arrays which are part of the WP class and these don't include anything to do with post_meta.
>> 
>> The public_query_vars are those which can be specified in a url and the private_query_vars are the extra ones which can be specified only by code
>> 
>> You will need to extend the list of private_query_vars which it supports to get the post_meta ones passed through"
>> 
>> 
>> --------------------
>> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/281165?replies=3
>> --------------------
>> function custom_pages_query( $query )
>> {
>>        global $wp, $wpdb;
>> 
>>        if( isset($_GET["meta_key"]) )
>>        {
>>                $wp->private_query_vars[] = 'meta_key';
>>                $query['meta_key'] = $_GET["meta_key"];
>>        }
>> 
>>        if( isset($_GET["meta_value"]) )
>>        {
>>                $wp->private_query_vars[] = 'meta_value';
>>                $query['meta_value'] = $_GET["meta_value"];
>>        }
>> 
>>        if( isset($_GET["post_parent"]) )
>>        {
>>                $post_parent = $_GET["post_parent"];
>>                $wp->private_query_vars[] = 'post_parent';
>> 
>>                if( !is_numeric($post_parent) )
>>                {
>>                        $post_parent = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare("SELECT <code>ID</code> FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE <code>post_name</code>='%s' AND <code>post_type</code>='page' AND <code>post_status</code>='publish'"), $post_parent);
>> 
>>                        if( NULL === $post_parent )
>>                                $post_parent = "";
>>                }
>> 
>>                $query['post_parent'] = $post_parent;
>>        }
>> 
>>        return $query;
>> }
>> add_filter('manage_pages_query', 'custom_pages_query');
>> 
>> HTH
>> 
>> -Mike
>> 
>> 
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