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How to Add a Custom Post Status to Quick Edit

I think you can find a lot of good information about status creation in WP. But I didn't find any notes about how to add a status (custom status, you just created) into inline post edit.

So, I mean this dropdown list:

As you can see, there are only 4 WordPress default common statuses. And when you create your own status withregister_post_status() function, it won't appear there.

              function rudr_custom_status_creation(){ 	register_post_status( 'featured', array( 		'label'                     => _x( 'Featured', 'post' ), // I used only minimum of parameters 		'label_count'               => _n_noop( 'Featured <span class="count">(%s)</span>', 'Featured <span class="count">(%s)</span>'), 		'public'                    => true 	)); } add_action( 'init', 'rudr_custom_status_creation' );

Okay, let's stop talking and start doing this. I want to show you the code whichallows you to add your custom post status into quick edit dropdown.

              add_action('admin_footer-edit.php','rudr_status_into_inline_edit');   function rudr_status_into_inline_edit() { // ultra-simple example 	echo "<script> 	jQuery(document).ready( function() { 		jQuery( 'select[name=\"_status\"]' ).append( '<option value=\"featured\">Featured</option>' ); 	}); 	</script>"; }

Some comments for the code:

Insert it to you themefunctions.php file. If you know what to do — insert it anywhere you want.
For beginners — if yourfunctions.php is empty, first of all add on the first line:<?php.
1-3.admin_footer-edit.php action hook means that the code will be processed only on Postwp-admin/edit.php, Pageswp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page and Custom Post Type pageswp-admin/edit.php?post_type={custom post type} in administration area.
6. Is anybody noticed that I didn't use jQueryeach() function? But why? Because quick edit HTML template just one for all posts.

WordPress inline post edit with you custom status in dropdown

I also recomment you to add the following hook into yourfunctions.php to display the custom post status label like this:

The code:

              function rudr_display_status_label( $statuses ) { 	global $post; // we need it to check current post status 	if( get_query_var( 'post_status' ) != 'featured' ){ // not for pages with all posts of this status 		if( $post->post_status == 'featured' ){ // если статус поста - Архив 			return array('Featured'); // returning our status label 		} 	} 	return $statuses; // returning the array with default statuses }   add_filter( 'display_post_states', 'rudr_display_status_label' );

That's it. Please leave comment if you have a question.

Thanks for reading.

Misha Rudrastyh

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