Save_post action not triggered

[Janowsky]

Hello,

I need to implement an action after the Cornerstone save action finished.
Therefore I tried to use the action save_post provided by wordpress.

But this action is only triggerd if I use the save button in wordpress itself, not if I save the page through wordpress.

I’m aware of following threads in this support forum, but both did not lead to an solution:

Pro, Editor, WP Hook, Save Page, Any News?

Missing Hook After Cornerstone finished saving

I need this hook to clear the site cache, so the updated page is delivered to our visitors.
Is there an alternative to the save_post hook, that I can use to achieve this?

Kind Regards

[ERES]

@alexander: are there plans to fire the save_post hook if we save in pro/cornerstone?

[alexander]

@Janowsky and @RSMG

I can provide some additional context here. When saving Cornerstone content we use the wp_update_post function which is just a wrapper for wp_insert_post. The WordPress action save_post (and also wp_insert_post) fires as part of wp_insert_post so those actions do indeed get triggered when Cornerstone saves. Additionally, there’s a cornerstone_after_save_content hook that we run after the post is saved.

What I imagine is happening is that the add_action call attaching to save_post is only running in the admin side of things rather than the front end. Cornerstone uses a front end AJAX endpoint. If your code is only runs under is_admin it will never run during a Cornerstone save. This is a common technique because it is rare from save_post to be needed on the front end.

Hopefully this helps bring some clarity.

[Janowsky]

@alexander
Thanks for the quick reply.
For me it does not look like that save_post is triggered.
Or I’m unaware of the correct implementation.

At the moment, I define the hook I the functions.php of our child-theme (X-Theme), which is used for this site.

This is the debug code, I’m using at the moment:

function test_post_save_action($post_id) {
    error_log("Post was saved");
}
add_action ('save_post', 'test_post_save_action');
add_action ('cornerstone_after_save_content', 'test_post_save_action');

[alexander]

Hi Markus,

I copy and pasted your code and it is working for me (at least with the latest version). I’m not really sure what else could prevent it from working.