I have a Custom post type in wordpress in which when creating a new post 3 child subposts are created automatically. For example, I create the post and assign it some status 'Publish', 'pending', 'draft' or another:
Post Company 1
-Subpost 1 (it is created automatically) -Subpost 2 (it is created automatically) -Subpost 3 (it is created automatically) Removing the parent (moves to 'trash' ) will also remove the subposts. But when you restore them, they should be in the state they were saved in before ('pending', 'draft', 'auto-draft' or something else).
How could I do that to restore the posts (parent and children) with their 'post-status' that they had defined before being moved to 'trash'?
This is my code that I am using to create the 3 child subposts automatically:
function add_children_custom_post_type( $post_id ) { if ( defined( 'DOING_AUTOSAVE' ) && DOING_AUTOSAVE ) return; if ( !wp_is_post_revision( $post_id ) && 'companies' == get_post_type( $post_id ) && 'publish' == get_post_status( $post_id ) ) { $show = get_post( $post_id ); if( 0 == $show->post_parent ){ $children =& get_children( array( 'post_parent' => $post_id, 'post_type' => 'companies' ) ); if( empty( $children ) ){ //Children pages $titles = ['Subpost1', 'Subpost2', 'Subpost3']; foreach ($titles as $key=>$title) { $child = array( 'post_type' => 'companies', 'post_title' => $title, 'post_content' => '', 'post_status' => 'publish', 'post_parent' => $post_id, 'post_author' => get_post_field('post_author', $post_id), 'menu_order' => $key ); wp_insert_post( $child ); } } } } } add_action( 'save_post', 'add_children_custom_post_type' ); And this is the one I use to move the child posts of a parent post when the parent is deleted:
// Move to Trash function trash_post_children($post_id) { $parent_ID = $post_id; $args = array( 'post_type' => 'companies', 'post_parent' => $parent_ID, 'posts_per_page' => -1, 'post_status' => array('publish', 'pending', 'draft', 'auto-draft', 'future', 'private', 'inherit', 'trash') ); $children = get_posts($args); if($children) { foreach($children as $p){ wp_trash_post($p->ID, true); } } } add_action('trashed_post', 'trash_post_children'); And this other one is to restore the posts but they are always restored in 'draft' state:
// RestorePost function restore_post_children($post_id) { $parent_ID = $post_id; $args = array( 'post_type' => 'companies', 'post_parent' => $parent_ID, 'posts_per_page' => -1, 'post_status' => 'trash' ); $children = get_posts($args); if($children) { foreach($children as $p) { wp_untrash_post($p->ID); } } } add_action('untrash_post', 'restore_post_children'); 
wp_untrash_postshould already do this and has code that does exactly what you're asking how to do built into it, the 9th line of code of that function fetches the post status from before it was trashed. Note that trashed posts are garbage collected on a schedule, if you're doing this just to hide the posts then that is a dangerous strategy to take. Alsowp_trash_postdoes not have a second parameter but you've passedtrue, is there a particular reason you've done this?wp_untrash_postalways restores my posts as 'draft'.wp_untrash_postit does this by retrieving the post meta_wp_trash_meta_status, though I see that you callwp_untrash_postinside an untrash post filter, which will call the filter again. Something else not mentioned in your question is happening. Are you using thewp_untrash_post_statusfilter? The canonical answer to your question is thatwp_untrash_postalready does this, no additional work is necessary, either something else in your codebase is interfering, or the post was a draft before it was deleted for unknown reasonswp_untrash_postit has the answer to your question in a comment just above the call to thewp_untrash_post_statusfilter I mentioned, detailing why this happens and what you need to do