Wrong notification on Post Update with Gravity Forms Post Updates plugin
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I am using Gravity Forms to let (logged in) site users submit posts from the front end. I’ve setup BNFW to send 2 “New Post Published” notifications when a new post is submitted: one to the admin and one to the user. This works great.
I also use Gravity Forms and the Gravity Forms Post Updates plugin so that an admin can update these posts from the front end. I want to send a notification to the post submitter when their post has been updated by the admin so I’ve created a “Post Updated” notification. However when the post is edited on the front end, instead of the “Post Updated” notification, the 2 “New Post Published” notifications are sent instead.
When a post is updated using Gravity Forms and Gravity Forms Post Updates, the post’s post_status is first changed to “draft” and then to “publish” again, which triggers the “New Post Published” notifications.
Is there a way to check if the post_status was changed twice (publish->draft, draft->publish) and send the “Post Updated” instead of the “New Post Published” notification?
ps. This issue has been reported in the past: Issue with Gravity Forms
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Hi Jack,
The problem ended up being not with the Gravity Forms: Post Updates plugin, but with the way Gravity Forms handles the post creation/update.Specifically, GF changes the post’s post_status to draft
// remove original post status and save it for later $post_status = $post_data['post_status']; // replace original post status with 'draft' so other plugins know this post is not fully populated yet $post_data['post_status'] = 'draft';and then changes it back to whatever it was
// update post status back to original status (if not draft) if ( $post_status != 'draft' ) { $post = is_object( $post ) ? $post : get_post( $post_id ); $post->post_status = $post_status; }It was the second change, draft to publish, that triggered the draft_to_publish hook which Better Notification for WordPress uses.
To prevent the “New Post” notifications, you need to eliminate the draft to publish change.
I accomplished that by first changing the post_status to something other than publish (I used ’temp_status’) and then after GF does it’s thing, changing it back to publish. I also added a second post_update at the end to trigger the publish_to_publish hook and send the “Post Updated” notification.
I hope this helps anyone who runs into the same issue in the future.
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