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@oandregal oandregal commented Dec 19, 2025

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/64434
Backports WordPress/gutenberg#74124

What?

This PR adds defensive checks to prevent some errors we've seen in hosts.

In certain scenarios, get_post function returns null after the wp_insert_post function is called. Although the post is saved, it's assumed that it can be immediately accessed, which is not always true.

Why?

See WordPress/gutenberg#70161

How?

Check if it's an object before passing it to get_object_vars.

How to reproduce

Unfortunately, there's no steps to reproduce it consistently. We've just seen reports by hosts that this happens occassionally in certain transition states for the site (creation, migration, etc.).

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I think it's better to be explicit that it's a WP_Post.

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mcsf commented Dec 22, 2025

I think it's better to be explicit that it's a WP_Post.

Good point, agreed.

oandregal and others added 2 commits December 22, 2025 14:00
Co-authored-by: Weston Ruter <westonruter@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Weston Ruter <westonruter@gmail.com>
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A commit was made that fixes the Trac ticket referenced in the description of this pull request.

SVN changeset: 61400
GitHub commit: fcf6a84

This PR will be closed, but please confirm the accuracy of this and reopen if there is more work to be done.

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@oandregal oandregal deleted the update/defend-against-null-post branch December 22, 2025 15:57
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