How to Add a Custom Post Status to Quick Edit

Updated on June 4, 2021

I think you can find a lot of good information about status creation in WP. But I didn’t find any notes about how to add a status (custom status, you just created) into inline post edit.

So, I mean this dropdown list:

As you can see, there are only 4 WordPress default common statuses. And when you create your own status with register_post_status() function, it won’t appear there.

function rudr_custom_status_creation(){
	register_post_status( 'featured', array(
		'label'                     => _x( 'Featured', 'post' ), // I used only minimum of parameters
		'label_count'               => _n_noop( 'Featured <span class="count">(%s)</span>', 'Featured <span class="count">(%s)</span>'),
		'public'                    => true
	));
}
add_action( 'init', 'rudr_custom_status_creation' );

Okay, let’s stop talking and start doing this. I want to show you the code which allows you to add your custom post status into quick edit dropdown.

add_action('admin_footer-edit.php','rudr_status_into_inline_edit');
 
function rudr_status_into_inline_edit() { // ultra-simple example
	echo "<script>
	jQuery(document).ready( function() {
		jQuery( 'select[name=\"_status\"]' ).append( '<option value=\"featured\">Featured</option>' );
	});
	</script>";
}

Some comments for the code:

Insert it to you theme functions.php file. If you know what to do — insert it anywhere you want.
For beginners — if your functions.php is empty, first of all add on the first line: <?php.
1-3. admin_footer-edit.php action hook means that the code will be processed only on Post wp-admin/edit.php, Pages wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page and Custom Post Type pages wp-admin/edit.php?post_type={custom post type} in administration area.
6. Is anybody noticed that I didn’t use jQuery each() function? But why? Because quick edit HTML template just one for all posts.

WordPress inline post edit with you custom status in dropdown

I also recomment you to add the following hook into your functions.php to display the custom post status label like this:

The code:

function rudr_display_status_label( $statuses ) {
	global $post; // we need it to check current post status
	if( get_query_var( 'post_status' ) != 'featured' ){ // not for pages with all posts of this status
		if( $post->post_status == 'featured' ){ // если статус поста - Архив
			return array('Featured'); // returning our status label
		}
	}
	return $statuses; // returning the array with default statuses
}
 
add_filter( 'display_post_states', 'rudr_display_status_label' );

That’s it. Please leave comment if you have a question.

Thanks for reading.

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function rudr_custom_status_creation(){ register_post_status( 'approved', array( 'label' => _x( 'Approved', 'product' ), 'label_count' => _n_noop( 'Approved <span class="count">(%s)</span>', 'Approved <span class="count">(%s)</span>'), 'public' => true )); } add_action( 'init', 'rudr_custom_status_creation' );

add_action('admin_footer-edit.php','rudr_status_into_inline_edit'); function rudr_status_into_inline_edit() { // ultra-simple example echo "<script> jQuery(document).ready( function() { jQuery( 'select[name=\"_status\"]' ).append( '<option value=\"approved\">Approved</option>' ); }); </script>"; }

Comments — 15

Jorge Rivera Sep 22, 2015

You are missing the part where you select the right value for the new status, you might wanna check teh step 4 of this tutorial for that! http://shibashake.com/wordpress-theme/expand-the-wordpress-quick-edit-menu
Jeff Nov 4, 2015

Thanks! This is EXACTLY what I was looking for and seems to work for me just fine (not sure about what Jorge’s comment is regarding so maybe I missed something). By the way, I am combining this with code I found to add the custom post status to the regular edit screen as well. (ref: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20298346/custom-post-status-not-appearing)
00ing Sep 2, 2017

thanks ,I think it is problem of wordpress

Anan

Mar 8, 2018

Hi,

Three years later – this still seems to be a problem.

I am currently trying to add a custom status (Approved / Rejected) to the Product Post Type created by Woocommerce.

First I registered the Status by using this code:

Then I tried to get it to show in quick edit using this code:

It showed in Posts but not in products. Is this method working with WordPress 4.9.4?

Misha Mar 9, 2018

Hi,

Did you try admin_footer action hook?

UTKARSH JAIN Mar 19, 2018

Thank you so much! Its really awesome. Really kills my pain
UTKARSH JAIN Mar 19, 2018

Can you also tell me how to change the color of status of each post?
- Misha Mar 24, 2018
  
  Hey,
  
  What do you mean?
Fulvio Jul 30, 2018

Hi, is there a way to display a green dot on the public page when the status is published and switch to a red dot when the status is a custom one ?

And yes I would really appreciate to know how this could be done :(

I want to display 50 persons who offer services. And when they are unavailable (holiday), i want to change their status easily displaying a green or red dot icon next to the the title/picture in the directory of persons and inside their profile, so inside the post.

Thanks a lot
- Misha Jul 31, 2018
  Hey Fulvio,
  
  Sure, you can do it just with a simple IF-ELSE statement:
```
if( get_post_status()  == 'publish' ) {
	echo '<span class="green-dot"></span>';
} else {
	echo '<span class="red-dot"></span>';
}
```
  But make sure, that you’re running this code within a loop. If not, you have to pass a post ID variable into the function get_post_status( $post_id ).
  - Fulvio Jul 31, 2018
    
    Thanks a lot I’ll try it !! :)
Giang Aug 10, 2018

that is awesome, thank you so much :)

but when edit a post, I can’t see new status here

http://prntscr.com/kh489d

do you have any solution?
- Jake Aug 13, 2018
  I think that you will need to a Jquery to add it there.
```
function rudr_status_into_inline_edit() { // ultra-simple example
	echo "
	jQuery(document).ready( function() {
		jQuery( 'select[name=\"post_status\"]' ).append( 'NEW STATUS' );
	});
	";
}
```
  I havent tried that but see if it works and if you have any problems, let me know.
  
  Jake.
Julianne Callais May 11, 2019

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