Schedule uploaded post publication

This didn’t work for me, it went straight to published. Also I was previously using a column called “post_status” for one of my own custom fields (now changed).

Is there any documentation for all of the columns Geodirectory may potentially be looking for (other than the ones in the dummy CSV file), just in case I might be using clashing column names for something else?

Also is it advised to follow the column order in the dummy CSV exactly, or does it not matter?

Should my own custom columns all go at the end?

Thanks for the info Paolo.

Could you tell me the name of that function? Maybe I could temporarily change the variable to set the uploads to draft?

I’m using the latest version of Geodirectory v1.4.2. I think I found the code you were referring to between lines 1773 to 1786:

$my_post['post_title'] = $post_title;
$my_post['post_content'] = $post_desc;
$my_post['post_type'] = addslashes($buffer[5]);
$my_post['post_author'] = $current_post_author;
$my_post['post_status'] = 'draft';
$my_post['post_category'] = $catids_arr;
$my_post['post_tags'] = $tag_arr;

$gd_post_info['post_tags'] = $tag_arr;
$gd_post_info['post_title'] = $post_title;
$gd_post_info['post_status'] = 'draft';
$gd_post_info['submit_time'] = time();
$gd_post_info['submit_ip'] = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

As you can see above I changed ‘publish’ to ‘draft’. This didn’t work even after reinstalling all my Geodirectory plugins.

I then did a search of the plugin codebase and found the same block of code in admin_hooks_actions.php lines 1486 to 1498.

After also changing both of those references to ‘draft’ this has worked, with the uploaded listings being marked as ‘draft’ and without me having to reinstall anything!

By the way, the reason I want to do this is so I can schedule my listings to go live over an extended period of time using Drafts Scheduler plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/drafts-scheduler/). This is so Google hopefully judges my site as being regularly updated for improved SEO.

Yeah sure no problem.

I can just make the change before I upload a batch of listings.

I just couldn’t wait for the update!

Also, after testing, the listing images didn’t show up on the draft when I previewed the listing. But they showed up fine once published. Someone will probably raise this as a bug when the feature goes live.