Edit post post_type should actually be the post_type

[filosofo]

Lately for a couple of plugins I've created a custom post_type.

However, when editing a post, the post_type input field has hard-coded "post" as its value, meaning post_type is always overwritten as "post."

My patch sets the post_type field with whatever the post type actually is.

Some sanitization is probably in order if we allow arbitrary types. Perhaps add sanitize_title to the pre_post_type filter?

I added a patch to sanitize post_type. Please also see also #4844

Since we've already fetched the post, we can use what's already there. See post_type.diff.

Duplicated in #5740.

For the post_type sanitizer, we should use a less expensive function than sanitize_title() which does UTF-8 octet encoding and accent removal. Something more like sanitize_user() strict.

Replying to lloydbudd:

Duplicated in #5740.

Whoops :)

I'll put my patch up here from that ticket anyway.

patch from #5740

(In [6712]) Don't hard code post type in edit forms. Props filosofo and DD32. fixes #4991

Changed it up a little to user get_default_post_to_edit() and get_default_page_to_edit() to set the default post_type and post_status.