New post has no status

[RoccoMarco]

Creating new post I was expecting that status will be the one I have chosen as default.

The status is empty. Taking a look to database it is saved as autodraft.

Is this a bug?

[RoccoMarco]

Looking at database the problem is that autosave saves the post as auto-draft or draft. I have solved this using this filter

/**

• @brief Fires on post insert forcing default state according to edit flow.
• @param[in] array $postdata the post data as a keyed array.
• @return array the modified post data.
  */

function pe_post_save($postdata) {
  if((strcmp($postdata['post_status'], 'draft') == 0) ||
     (strcmp($postdata['post_status'], 'auto-draft') == 0)) {
    global $edit_flow;
    if(is_a($edit_flow, 'edit_flow')) {
      $status = $edit_flow->custom_status->get_default_custom_status()->slug;
      $postdata['post_status'] = $status;      
    }
  }
  return $postdata;
}
add_action( 'wp_insert_post_data', 'pe_post_save');

[pyronaur]

Hi @RoccoMarco,
WordPress is automatically saving auto-drafts for you even when you don't save your posts. I think that they shouldn't be turned into "Pitches" (or whichever default status you've given your edit flow). Auto-drafts are and should be hidden from calendar - when the author saves a post - it will appear on the calendar. This way, while someone is working on a draft - it won't appear on the calendar, and when they click "Save Post" it'll have the default status and show up.

[dchymko]

Sounds like this may not be a bug, as auto-saves are working as intended here. Will close this issue out for now, but feel free to re-open if there is additional context.