Post Status Admin

WordPress allows developers to create custom post statuses beyond the default ones like Published, Draft, Pending, etc. This is useful for adding statuses that are specific to your site or plugin. For example, an ecommerce site may want statuses like "Awaiting Payment", "Payment Received", "Shipped", etc.

To register a custom status, you use the register_post_status() function. This function allows you to specify details about the status such as the label, whether it publicly queryable, etc.

Here is an example registration:

register_post_status( 'awaiting_payment', array(
'label' => _x( 'Awaiting Payment', 'post status', 'textdomain' ),
'public' => true,
'exclude_from_search' => false,
'show_in_admin_all_list' => true,
'show_in_admin_status_list' => true,
'label_count' => _n_noop( 'Awaiting Payment <span class="count">(%s)</span>', 'Awaiting Payment <span class="count">(%s)</span>' )
) );

Some key arguments here:

• 'label' - The name of the status .
• 'public' - Whether the status should be publicly queryable.
• 'exclude_from_search' - Whether to exclude posts with this status from search results.
• 'show_in_admin_all_list' - Show in the "All" statuses filter.
• 'show_in_admin_status_list' - Show in the list of statuses.
• 'label_count' - The formatted text used when displaying post counts.

Once registered, you would use this status when inserting or updating posts. For example:

$post_id = wp_insert_post(array(
'post_status' => 'awaiting_payment',
// other post data
));

Some key advantages of custom statuses:

• They keep your data organized since you can track custom post states.
• They integrate cleanly into native UI like status filters.
• Lots of flexibility to map to specific business logic.

The registration process takes just a bit of code but then is easy to leverage globally. Definitely a useful tool for developers and advanced sites!