[wp-hackers] Plugin Problem - Working sometimes...

[Stephen Rider]

If he later saves the post again, won't it add a second footer?

I would use a filter, but add it only to posts last saved after  
today.  Then down the road if you ever edit a past post, you can  
delete the old footer and the new save date will flag it to show the  
new footer via filter. :)

Stephen

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Stephen Rider
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On Jul 24, 2008, at 11:50 PM, Gaarai wrote:

> The hook you most likely want to look into is the save_post action  
> hook. You'll have to do some checks to see if you've modified the  
> post or not, but that's a readily-solved problem.
>
> Travis Quinnelly [MUO] wrote:
>> I think we decided for this route since prior to this plugin, the  
>> authors
>> were adding this to every post. Therefore, these "footers" are  
>> already
>> inputted into hundreds of posts already as part of "the_content".
>>
>> Wouldn't this route duplicate those?
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com 
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, filters are the way to go here. You're doing it the really,  
>>> really
>>> hard (and I guess technically "wrong") way.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Gaarai <gaarai at gaarai.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why are you directly modifying the post at all? If you think  
>>>> about it, this
>>>> would work much better if you are just appending the data to each  
>>>> post when
>>>> it is shown (I.E. hook to the the_content filter). The reason is  
>>>> simple: if
>>>> the author ever changes their info, your current system doesn't  
>>>> have a
>>>> method for updating the data that is already added to the posts.
>>>>
>>>> Travis Quinnelly [MUO] wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This particular plugin appends each article with a custom "author
>>>>> footer"
>>>>> which is saved in each author's profile page to the db. It grabs  
>>>>> the
>>>>> author
>>>>> footer, and places it at the end of the_content on publish.