Finally found this topic, but aww man…
The autosave request (admin-ajax.php action=autosave) only includes “blessed” parameters in the post data? There is no hook to “bless” form elements from plugins so they will be sent too? At least there is a work around…
My suggestions for 2.8.5 or greater…
- Let me give my form elements a specific class that the autosave function will look for and include the corresponding form el’s name/value in autosave request.
- Make the save_post hook a little more easy. Maybe pass an extra argument to the hook function to indicate whether or not an autosave is in progress.
- Submit the whole form on autosave. Why not?
