Ping status of pages changes to "closed" in quick edit

[JanVoracek]

WP version: 4.2-beta4

Every page is created with ping_status set to "open". If the page is edited in the "full" edit form, the ping_status remains untouched. However, if the page is edited in the quick edit form, the ping_status field is changed to "closed" since WP 4.2.

Since pages don't support the ping functionality, I suppose it shouldn't change the field. Maybe "closed" is the propper one, but it should be set on the creation.

It makes testing of our plugin a little bit tricky.

Thanks.
Jan

[boonebgorges]

I've confirmed the bug, but it doesn't look like it's new to 4.2. As far as I can tell, it's worked this way since the current implementation of Quick Edit went into WP. See https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-posts-list-table.php?annotate=blame&marks=1252,1261#L1234 and https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php?annotate=blame&marks=1550,1551#L1542 Can you check again to be sure that this was not a problem in 4.1 and earlier?

It looks to me like the simplest fix is to change https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-posts-list-table.php?annotate=blame&marks=1252,1261#L1234 so that when the post_type_supports() checks fail (elseif) a hidden input with the current value will be output to the screen.

[pareshradadiya]

Hidden checkbox added when the post_type_supports() check is fail for trackbacks

[boonebgorges]

Thanks for the patch, pareshradadiya. A couple things:

• Let's use <input type="hidden"> rather than hiding with CSS
• We should be falling back not on 'open', but on the actual 'ping_status' value for the current post
• Could you fix the whitespace to match coding standards please? :)

[boonebgorges]

(Also, we should do the same thing for comment status, which I believe suffers from the same bug.)

[pareshradadiya]

Checkbox replaced with hidden field and also puted same thing for comment status

[desrosj]

It looks like this one is still happening.

Every page is created with ping_status set to "open".

I am finding this is not the case currently in 6.0.1, though. I'm not sure if it's because of how my site is set up (it's just a fresh install), or a change somewhere along the way. But every test page I have created with both the block editor and the Classic Editor have had ping_status set to closed. But, if I change it to open and bulk edit the page, the behavior described above is seen.

31977.2.diff​ needs a refresh. @pareshradadiya I know it's been a long time (apologies for this one falling through the cracks), but would you be interested in refreshing the patch?

[desrosj]

Related: #25582.

Did a refresh on the changes applied in the latest patch. ( Added hidden input fields containing comment_status and ping_status, changes about those statuses in the .js file )

Trac ticket: [](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/31977)