Publish status automatically changes to “private” on first save

Hi @uriahs-victor,

This is most unusual. I am not dismissing your concern when I say this, but I am so certain that this issue is specific to your environment. I can’t repeat this on my end, and no one, and I mean no one else has reported this. So for this, can you please disable all other plugins, and test. Then try changing the theme to a default WordPress theme like Twenty Twenty or one of the Twenty Something themes and then do a test. My gut tells me a theme or plugin is doing this.

Also try creating a normal blog post (so not an idea) and see if the issue is occurring for that. That might also point to some code running in the background somewhere which is making everything private.

Its strange because as you can see in the video this was from a fresh test install on instawp.io and the issue happened. But I just tested on tastewp.com and it didn’t

But it seems you have a PHP error, it shows on the ideas list:

array_key_exists() expects parameter 2 to be array, bool given in /s3-filmmagic/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/ideapush/inc/functions/helper-functions.php on line 797

See here: https://prnt.sc/JiFsVqws-kab

This is on a fresh install of WP on tastewp.com, no plugins installed

Hi @uriahs-victor,

I don’t have experience with instawp.io, but maybe they are putting some limitations on things so people can’t make public pages from a liability perspective. For example there might be some joker who wants to post some illegal content of some kind and to prevent others seeing this, they have some override which prevents posts being public. Just a theory and it might explain why on the other service you used it was fine.

On that error you mentioned this will show until the settings are saved, once the settings are saved it will disappear. With that said, in the next release this, will be resolved – thanks for letting me know.

Thanks,