Alright, here's what I'm trying to achieve. I have a custom post type called 'Campaigns' and a custom taxonomy called 'Countries' that has been assigned to the campaign post type. When a user adds a new country (tags a new country to a campaign) I want to duplicate the current post, name the new post the name of the country just assigned, and make it a child of the current post.
Currently, I'm hooking into 'set_object_terms' and on the save of the terms determining what new terms have been created. I'm then trying to insert a new post for each of the terms, however I'm creating an infinite loop. I've tried creating a global to stop the loop, but I'm running into some issues. This is what I have so far.
$GLOBALS['control_campaign_count'] = 0;
add_action('set_object_terms','save_terms',10,6);
function save_terms($object_id, $terms, $tt_ids, $taxonomy, $append, $old_tt_ids) {
//Assuming we only want terms from specific taxonomy
//If not simply remove this conditional
$our_taxonomy = 'country';
if($taxonomy == $our_taxonomy){
//Added terms are specified terms, that did not already exist
$added_tt_ids = array_diff($tt_ids, $old_tt_ids);
if ($append) {
//If appending terms - nothing was removed
$removed_tt_ids = array();
} else {
//Removed terms will be old terms, that were not specified in $tt_ids
$removed_tt_ids = array_diff($old_tt_ids, $tt_ids);
}
/*,
Currently we have the taxonomy term IDs */
foreach($added_tt_ids as $term){
$added_terms[] = get_term_by( 'term_taxonomy_id',$term,$taxonomy);
$name = $added_terms->name;
echo $name;
// Add New Post
add_action('wp_insert_post', 'add_new_campaign');
function add_new_campaign() {
if($GLOBALS['control_campaign_count'] === 1) {
return;
}
$GLOBALS['control_campaign_count']++;
$new_post_arguments = array(
'post_title' => 'Japan',
'post_content' => '',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'post_type' => 'campaigns',
'post_parent' => 1156
);
$id = wp_insert_post($new_post_arguments);
update_post_meta($id, 'keywords');
}
}
foreach($removed_tt_ids as $term){
$removed_terms[] = get_term_by( 'term_taxonomy_id',$term,$taxonomy);
}
//$added_terms contains added term objects
//$removed_terms contains removed term objects
}
}
Ideas? Thoughts on a better way to achieve this? Thank you in advance.
I'd use the same hook. But..
Here's the code I used, which worked well for me:
add_action( 'set_object_terms', 'auto_create_campaigns', 10, 6 );
function auto_create_campaigns( $object_id, $terms, $tt_ids, $taxonomy, $append, $old_tt_ids ) {
if ( 'campaigns' !== get_post_type( $object_id ) || 'country' !== $taxonomy ) {
return;
}
if ( $append ) {
$term_ids = $tt_ids;
} else {
$term_ids = array_diff( $tt_ids, $old_tt_ids );
}
$post = get_post( $object_id, ARRAY_A );
unset( $post['ID'] );
foreach ( $term_ids as $term_id ) {
// Remove the hook (to avoid infinite loop).
remove_action( 'set_object_terms', 'auto_create_campaigns', 10, 6 );
$term = get_term( $term_id, $taxonomy );
if ( is_wp_error( $term ) || empty( $term ) ) {
continue;
}
$post['post_title'] = $term->name;
$post['post_name'] = $term->slug;
$post['post_parent'] = $object_id;
$post_id = wp_insert_post( $post );
/*if ( $post_id ) {
// Copy the parent's "countries".
// wp_set_post_terms( $post_id, $terms, $taxonomy );
}*/
/*if ( $post_id ) {
// Copy the parent's custom fields.
// ..
}*/
// Add it back.
add_action( 'set_object_terms', 'auto_create_campaigns', 10, 6 );
}
}
That code only copies the standard post data such as post_title
; however, it is possible to also copy the parent post's "countries"/terms and/or custom fields.
It's probably better to remove the hook and add it back (at the end of each iteration in the foreach
loop) than using the global $_in_auto_create_campaigns
.
Hopefully that also helps you with the grandchild posts:
How can I set the terms, allow grandchild posts, and not get in an infinite loop?
(You can also try this, which uses the same method, but the remove_action()
and add_action()
are placed near the wp_set_post_terms()
)