Change publish date from meta date when publish post
When the post is publish, I want the publish date as the same as the date in the meta data, imic_sermon_date.
Here's my code. The problem is that it get stuck when publishing a post.
function update_sermon_date ($post_id) {
//automatically change publish date to sermon date when publish/save a postfunction update_sermon_date ($post_id) {
$sermon_date = get_post_meta($post_id, 'imic_sermon_date', true);
$mypost = array (
'ID' => $post_id,
'post_date' => $sermon_date);
wp_update_post( $mypost );
}
add_action ('save_post', 'update_sermon_date');
Can someone help me with this?
Thanks.
Solutions
After searching online, I've fixed my code.
The code basically will only update when the post is edited. I added remove_action and add_action in order to prevent the code from running an endless loop .
****//automatically change publish date to sermon date when publish/save a post
function update_sermon_date () {
if (defined('DOING_AUTOSAVE') && DOING_AUTOSAVE)
return;
if ( !current_user_can('edit_post', $post_id) )
return;
$sermon_date = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'imic_sermon_date', true);
$mypost = array (
'ID' => get_the_ID(),
'post_title' => $sermon_date,
'post_date' => $sermon_date,
'post_date_gmt' => $sermon_date);
if ( ! (wp_is_post_revision($post_id) || wp_is_post_autosave ( $post_id) ) ) {
remove_action('edit_post','update_sermon_date');
wp_update_post( $mypost );
add_action ('edit_post', 'update_sermon_date');
}
}
add_action ('edit_post', 'update_sermon_date');****
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