Patch suggestion

Hello!

I have made a small little hack to suit a particular use case I have. I have a custom post type with a meta box that allows you to link to dependent posts. After saving the child post (I’m using Pods) then I want Save and Close to return to the parent edit form.

I have made the following changes. I added a force param so that it would not interfere with existing functionality:

function add_button() {
  ...
		<div id="major-publishing-actions" style="overflow:hidden">
			<div id="publishing-action">

//////// BEGIN MOD ////////
				<input type="hidden" name="saveclose_referer_force" value="<?php echo $_REQUEST['saveclose_referer_force'] ?>">
//////// END MOD ////////
				<input type="hidden" name="saveclose_referer" value="<?php echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] ?>">
				<input type="submit" tabindex="5" value="<?php echo $button_label ?>" class="button-primary" id="custom" name="save-close">
			</div>
		</div>
  ...
}

and

function redirect() {
  ...
		wp_update_post(array('ID' => $_POST['post_ID'], 'post_status' => $post_status));

//////// BEGIN MOD ////////
            //has the calling page explicitly asked that we return to it?
            $force_referer = false;
            if (isset($_POST['saveclose_referer_force'])) {
              $force_referer = $_POST['saveclose_referer_force'];
            }

		// if we have an HTTP referer saved, and it's a post listing page (or referer explicitly set the force param), redirect back to that (maintains pagination, filters, etc.)
		if (isset($_POST['saveclose_referer']) && ($force_referer || strstr($_POST['saveclose_referer'], 'edit.php') !== false)) {
//////// END MOD ////////

  ...
}

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