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How to Highlight Your Post Status in WordPress

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Do you want to highlight your post status on your WordPress dashboard? The status of a given post, such as Published, Draft, Pending, etc. determines how WordPress handles that post. Let’s take a look at how to highlight post status within admin posts and pages.

highlight post states within admin posts and pages

Instructions:

All you have to do is add this code to your theme’s functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin:

function custom_post_states( $post_states ) {
   foreach ( $post_states as &$state ){
   $state = '<span class="'.strtolower( $state ).' states">' . str_replace( ' ', '-', $state ) . '</span>';
   }
   return $post_states;
}
add_filter( 'display_post_states', 'custom_post_states' );

function custom_post_states_css(){
	echo '<style>
		.post-state .states{
			font-size:10px;
			padding:3px 8px 3px 8px;
			-moz-border-radius:2px;
			-webkit-border-radius:2px;
			border-radius:2px;
			}
		.post-state .password{background:#000;color:#fff;}
		.post-state .pending{background:#83CF21 !important;color:#fff;}
		.post-state .private{background:#E0A21B;color:#fff;}
		.post-state .draft{background:#006699;color:#fff;}
	      </style>';
}
add_action('admin_head','custom_post_states_css');

Note: If this is your first time adding code snippets in WordPress, then please refer to our guide on how to properly copy / paste code snippets in WordPress, so you don’t accidentally break your site.

If you liked this code snippet, please consider checking out our other articles on the site like: 62 best free WordPress blog themes or 7 best WordPress contact form plugins.

Comments   Leave a Reply

  1. Thanks for this. It should make a good companion to the (now updated) custom statuses snippet.

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