[Waiting for user confirmation] how to sync publish status for product ?
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Background of the issue:
I have 3 languages on my site, with Italian as the default and English/Chinese as additional languages. When I change a product's status from 'published' to 'draft' in Italian, the Italian product disappears, but the English and Chinese versions remain published. I want to automate the status change for all languages.
Symptoms:
When changing a product's status to 'draft' in the default language (Italian), the status does not automatically sync to additional languages (English/Chinese).
Questions:
Is there a way to automatically sync the publish status across all languages when changing it in the default language?
Languages: English (English )Spanish (Español )German (Deutsch )
Timezone: America/Lima (GMT-05:00)
Hello,
WPML does handle the status of each content in each language independently.
You could try using a code snippet, like the following example. If you save this snippets inside the function.php file of your theme and then save a original post, page or product, it should sync the status into all active languages.
function sync_publish_status_across_languages($post_id) {
// Check if this is a valid post type and that the post is not being autosaved
if (defined('DOING_AUTOSAVE') && DOING_AUTOSAVE) return;
if ('post' != get_post_type($post_id)) return;
// Get the current post status
$post_status = get_post_status($post_id);
// Get the default language
$default_language = apply_filters( 'wpml_default_language', null );
// Get all translations of the post in different languages
$translations = apply_filters( 'wpml_get_element_translations', null, $post_id, 'post' );
foreach ($translations as $lang => $translation) {
// Skip the default language post (we don't want to update it)
if ($lang === $default_language) continue;
// Get the translation post ID
$translation_post_id = $translation->element_id;
// Update the publish status of the translated post
wp_update_post(array(
'ID' => $translation_post_id,
'post_status' => $post_status
));
}
}
add_action('save_post', 'sync_publish_status_across_languages');
thanks, I workaround'ed it by search SKU through dtabase , since all 3 languages's product shows same SKU but with different post id , so I extract the post ID by returning SKU-matched query , then manually update the postmeta one by one
Languages: English (English )Spanish (Español )German (Deutsch )
Timezone: America/Lima (GMT-05:00)
The code I earlier provided to you would only work for WordPress Posts or Pages.
If you are working with WooCommerce Products you will need to adapt the code:
function sync_publish_status_across_languages($post_id) {
// Check if this is a valid post type (product) and that the post is not being autosaved
if (defined('DOING_AUTOSAVE') && DOING_AUTOSAVE) return;
if ('product' != get_post_type($post_id)) return; // Check for WooCommerce product post type
// Get the current post status
$post_status = get_post_status($post_id);
// Get the default language
$default_language = apply_filters('wpml_default_language', null);
// Get all translations of the post in different languages
$translations = apply_filters('wpml_get_element_translations', null, $post_id, 'product'); // Updated for products
foreach ($translations as $lang => $translation) {
// Skip the default language post (we don't want to update it)
if ($lang === $default_language) continue;
// Get the translation post ID
$translation_post_id = $translation->element_id;
// Update the publish status of the translated post
wp_update_post(array(
'ID' => $translation_post_id,
'post_status' => $post_status
));
}
}
add_action('save_post', 'sync_publish_status_across_languages');
