[wp-hackers] Tracking changes for posts

Wordpress Developer wordpress.development at gmail.com
Fri Jul 2 16:43:18 UTC 2010


I'll remove myself from the list. Thanks for the kind welcome, Matt.

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Matt Mullenweg <m at mullenweg.com> wrote:

> Could you please change your name and email, and if you're going to use
> something so confusing at least capitalize the P correctly.
>
>
> On 7/1/2010 6:23 PM, Wordpress Developer wrote:
>
>> I'm developing for a platform that pushes out posts to other systems on
>> publish. I'd like to be able to inform these systems when there is an
>> update
>> to the original item, be it a new excerpt, title, or whatever.
>>
>> In an ideal world I'd be able to do this through something like
>> pubsubhubbub
>> but the Wordpress plugin is hooked to a publish event vs. the
>> transition_post_status hook, which is what I'm looking to use.
>>
>> So right now I'm scoping out creating a DB table that will track posts
>> changes such that I can create an RSS feed of items those outside systems
>> should update.
>>
>> Does anyone have some advice as to the best way to go about tracking
>> changes
>> for posts? I imagine I look for $post->post_type == "revision" -- but then
>> what? Is there an elegant way to narrow down to the morsels of info that
>> got
>> updated?
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