[wp-hackers] Autosave API for custom post types?

[Pascal Birchler]

Currently WP doesn't store revisions of post meta data, but there are plans
to do this. See this ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/20564

John Blackbourn has written a small tutorial to make it work with a plugin,
too: https://johnblackbourn.com/post-meta-revisions-wordpress


2014-03-05 0:02 GMT+01:00 TV productions <info at tv-productions.org>:

> Andrew,
>
> I believe it does so, but it doesn't submit the whole post form.
>
> This is the post data that a typical autosave request has (after the title
> has changed)
> ==================================
> action          autosave
> autosave        true
> autosavenonce   ebb79c8859
> catslist
> comment_status  open
> content
> excerpt
> ping_status     open
> post_author     1
> post_id         2996
> post_name       a
> post_title      Ab
> post_type       easy-photo-album
> ==================================
> I hope my problem is a bit more clear now.
>
> Ties
>
> ---
>
> TV productions :: Web development and stuff
> http://tv-productions.org
>
> On 04-03-2014 23:57, Andrew Bartel wrote:
>
>> Does autosave not trigger the save_post and/or edit_post actions?  You
>> could probably hook on to those.
>>
>> -Andrew
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:50 PM, TV productions <info at tv-productions.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi wp-hackers,
>>
>> I have a plugin (http://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-photo-album/) with a
>> custom post type and as update I've added successfully support for
>> revisions. But when I restore an autosave, the metadata (that is saved
>> with
>> the revisions) is empty. After digging into the code, I found out that
>> autosave only checks the title and the content (which in my plugin doesn't
>> exists on the edit page) for differences and saves only them.
>>
>> So I was wondering if there is (or will be in the near future) a autosave
>> API that allows to save also "custom data". And, if that is not the case,
>> does anyone know a workaround to save my metadata with autosave?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Ties
>>
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>> http://tv-productions.org
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