Current page publishing status not being selected correctly in drop down menu

[johnhennmacc]

Because the $post object is not being seen by the page_submit_meta_box function, the "Published" entry is being displayed in the drop-down box and this could result in premature publishing of pages when you save a revision for one that you want to keep as draft. I have attached a patch for this.

[azaozz]

Cannot reproduce this, status is being displayed properly. The $post object is passed as argument to page_submit_meta_box().

[johnhennmacc]

While I accept that you cannot reproduce the problem, I can reproduce it on more than one machine and with both the latest nightly build and Subversion revision. It seems that $post is not being passed to the function for whatever reason and I'll need to do some more digging as to why. I'll reopen the ticket in case anyone has anything else to add.

[johnhennmacc]

I think that I now know what was causing this. A (phantom?) $page object was being fed to the do_meta_boxes function in the following line of edit-page-form.php:

$side_meta_boxes = do_meta_boxes('page', 'side', $page);

It should have been fed $post. I am attaching a new patch that supercedes the earlier one.

[azaozz]

(In [8850]) Correct var name in do_meta_boxes() in edit-page-form.php, props johnhennmacc, fixes #7705