[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #55129: WP REST API - Updating "status" field on a "post" from "future" to "publish" does not work

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#55129: WP REST API - Updating "status" field on a "post" from "future" to
"publish" does not work
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 Reporter:  mcmwebsol          |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal             |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  REST API           |     Version:  4.7
 Severity:  normal             |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  reporter-feedback  |     Focuses:
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Changes (by TimothyBlynJacobs):

 * keywords:   => reporter-feedback
 * version:  5.9 => 4.7


Comment:

 Welcome to trac, and thanks for the ticket @mcmwebsol!

 The reason you are seeing this behavior is that `wp_insert_post`
 [https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-
 develop/blob/968b3fc5a4aa9871ce8654b48502f8710fc804a1/src/wp-
 includes/post.php#L4236 requires] a publish date that is within a minute
 of the current time when publishing a post. Otherwise, the `post_status`
 is forced to be `future`.

 So when you update the post to `publish` make sure to also pass a new date
 that is set to the current time.

 The REST API could automatically set the date to now when passing a
 `status` of `publish`. That would be inserting magic into the REST API
 controller that bypasses the safe guards in `wp_insert_post`, so I'm not
 sure we'd want to introduce that behavior. Thoughts @spacedmonkey?

 Here is sample code that you can execute with WP-CLI to see that behavior
 in action.

 {{{#!php
 <?php
 $request = new WP_REST_Request( 'POST', '/wp/v2/posts' );
 $request->set_body_params( [
         'status'   => 'future',
         'date_gmt' => gmdate( 'Y-m-d\TH:i:s', strtotime( 'tomorrow' ) ),
         'title'    => 'Test Post',
         'content'  => 'Test Content',
 ] );
 $response = rest_do_request( $request );

 if ( is_wp_error( $response ) ) {
         wp_die( $response );
 }

 $request = new WP_REST_Request( 'PUT', '/wp/v2/posts/' .
 $response->get_data()['id'] );
 $request->set_body_params( [ 'status' => 'publish', 'date_gmt' => gmdate(
 'Y-m-d\TH:i:s' ) ] );

 $response = rest_do_request( $request );

 if ( is_wp_error( $response ) ) {
         wp_die( $response );
 }

 echo $response->get_data()['status'] . PHP_EOL;
 echo $response->get_data()['date'] . PHP_EOL;
 }}}

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