I have a workflow that imports from FB, via EA, then uses a plugin ‘WP to Buffer Pro’ to push events to Buffer on publish, or otherwise manually on updates, etc.
\nIts the publishing of events I have a question with. <\/p>\n
The issue has been that when a new event is imported from FB, and subsequently sent to Buffer, there is no “featured image” sent as well.
\nThis does not occur with updated events, or events that are manually published. <\/p>\n
I reached out the plugin author, and they indicated it may be due to the order that the EA triggers the publish and then attached the featured image? <\/p>\n
Please see their notes below<\/p>\n
This is happening due to their plugin not considering third party plugins. Roughly speaking, on importing an event, their plugin:
\n1. Create the Post, using wp_insert_post(), in publish mode. This triggers transition_post_status, which will be ‘publish’ and therefore trigger our plugin.
\n2. Assign the Featured Image to the created Post – this is too late, as by then the Post has already been published.<\/p>\nWe can’t control the above process, but can only recommend what we have done for several other third party plugins, which is to adjust their process as follows:
\n1. Create the Post, using wp_insert_post(), in draft mode. This doesn’t trigger transition_post_status to be ‘publish, and therefore doesn’t trigger ours (or any other plugins) that might reasonably rely on the publish event.
\n2. Assign the Featured Image to the created draft Post
\n3. Update the draft Post’s status to Published. This triggers transition_post_status, which will be ‘publish’ and therefore trigger our plugin. As the Post now has the Featured Image, we’ll include it in the status update to Buffer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nI would at least like to see if this is how the EA publish works and if its possible to change? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1323855","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n
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