Stop WordPress “Auto Drafts” from showing?

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I’m using the following code to query a custom post type. Despite being set to “post_status = publish” it is still showing blank “auto draft” pages on the front end, though I cannot locate them on backend. How do I get rid of these posts? 

<?php
    global $themeple_config;

    $query = new WP_Query( array(
        'post_type'     => 'testimonial',
        'post_status'   => 'plublish',
        'orderby'       => 'post_date',
        'order'         => 'DESC'
    ) );
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  1. It was simply a typo. “plublish” should have been “publish” obviously.

    Correct code is as follows:

    $query = new WP_Query( array(
    'post_type'     => 'testimonial',
    'post_status'   => 'publish',
    'orderby'       => 'post_date',
    'order'         => 'DESC'
) );

    Credit to @yuyokk for noticing.

  2. see the following code if it can help you. 

    global $wpdb;

if ( ! $post = get_post( $post ) ) return;

if ( 'publish' == $post->post_status ) return;

$wpdb->update( $wpdb->posts, array( 'post_status' => 'publish' ), array( 'ID' => $post->ID ) );

clean_post_cache( $post->ID );

$old_status = $post->post_status;
$post->post_status = 'publish';
wp_transition_post_status( 'publish', $old_status, $post );

    for more information click here