Insert new post in to wordpress from php
Posted on June 17th, 2008 by Steven Smethurst
This code snippet should let you add a new post to your wordpress database 2.5.1 require_once(‘wp-config.php’); // create post object class wm_mypost { var $post_title; var $post_content; var $post_status; /* publish, private */ var $post_author; /* author user id (optional) */ var $post_name; /* slug (optional) */ var $post_type; /* ’page’ or ’post’ (optional, defaults to ’post’) */ var $comment_status; /* open or closed for commenting (optional) */ var $post_category ; } // initialize post object $wm_mypost = new wm_mypost(); $wm_mypost->post_title = "Title2 ". date( ’r' ); $wm_mypost->post_content = "content3"; $wm_mypost->post_status = ’publish’; $wm_mypost->post_author = 1; // Catagorys $post_category = split("," , "one"); foreach($post_category as $key=>$val) { $post_category[$key] = get_cat_ID($val); } $wm_mypost->post_category = $post_category ; // Optional; uncomment as needed // $wm_mypost->post_type = ’page’; // $wm_mypost->comment_status = ’closed’; // feed object to wp_insert_post $post_ID = wp_insert_post($wm_mypost); echo date( ’r' ) . "\n"; echo "post_ID:". $post_ID . "\n";