Quick Publish

  • Resolved wilcosky

    (@wilcosky)


    3 years, 5 months ago

    I know that one can select quick edit and move a post from draft to published. But, I’m wondering if anyone is aware of a plug-in which would allow you to do a one-click to publish type action. Imagine looking at a list of posts, some published, some not, and then being able to, “click,” that one’s published now… “click,” and now that one’s published.

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic
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  • I don’t see a plugin for this, but I’ve done it below with JavaScript. This adds a Quick Publish button next to Quick Edit. Add it to your functions file or use the Code Snippets plugin.

    <?php
add_action('admin_footer', 'wpsf_add_quick_publish', 100);
function wpsf_add_quick_publish()
{ ?>
  <script>
    (function($) {
      // Add a Quick Publish button
      var quickPublishButton = '' +
        '<span class="quick-publish">' +
        '  <a href="javascript:;">Quick Publish</a>' +
        '  | ' +
        '</span>';

      $('.row-actions > .inline').after(quickPublishButton);

      // When Quick Publish is clicked...
      $('.quick-publish').click(function() {

        // Open Quick Edit
        $(this).closest('.row-actions').find('.editinline').click();

        // Wait a moment for Quick Edit to open
        setTimeout(() => {

          // Select Published from the Status dropdown
          $('.inline-editor select[name="_status"]').val('publish');

          // Click Update
          $('.inline-editor .save').click();

        }, 500);

      });
    })(jQuery);
  </script>
<?php
}
    Thread Starter wilcosky

    (@wilcosky)

    Very cool, thank you! I’ve also always seen and heard about the code snippets plugin but never tried it. I decided to try it out. It’s very nice. Sure, you can pop these things into functions.php, but this is a nice visually organized way to do it.

    But, after saving this snippet I got a blank screen and the URL has code error in it. However, the code works and there no errors in the console. And so I’m hoping it’s just a bug with the code snippets plugin or a conflict with another plugin. I guess if everything works and there are no errors showing I’ll just live with it.

    You got a blank screen after clicking Save Changes and Activate on the snippet edit screen? I tested it again on a clean install with just Twenty Twenty One theme and the Code Snippets plugin and it works without issue. So that does point to a theme or plugin conflict.

    Happy to help! ?? This was a fun scripting exercise.

    Thread Starter wilcosky

    (@wilcosky)

    Thanks for the testing that really quick! Yes, it’s definitely a plugin conflict then. I’ll do the old deactivate and reactivate plugins one at a time at some point.

    The code you provided works great!

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