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Importing custom DB table entries as posts with Categories

Resolved: Just needed to add trim to the term names retrieved from the custom DB table!! D’oh!

Is it possible to get a shortcode generated by a plugin, then, using a function, create a new post using that shortcode?

I played around with the plugin files and was able to figure it out myself. For anyone who’s wondering, you can use wp_insert_post. You just need to find what variable the generated shortcode is stored in, which can take a little digging through the plugin files. For the plugin I was working with, it went … Read more

Get original post ID after wp_insert_post

Ultimately the solution that I found was to use global $post; to retrieve the current post’s ID. Immediately after wp_insert_post( $new_cpta ); above, I added global $post; $currentid = $post->ID; Then I was able to update the post meta for the correct post with $currentid in place of $post_id.

Call to a member function insert()

UPDATED: Save a custom_field value when automatically creating a post using wp_insert_post

Solved: There was different capitalization on the variable $key ($Key vs $key) Always the simple things you miss eh? 🙂

Submitting custom post from frontend,jQuery ajax, and custom validation – can’t find proper place to insert wp_insert_post()

You can achieve the goal through many ways. though the way you have selected is not an appropriate one but you can go with it also. just include the file wp-blog-header.php file (placed at the wordpress root) into validation.php above all other code. you can find all the wordpress related functions will work like a … Read more

Choose default template for a page with code

Here is your answer. Go to this GitHub repository and follow the instructions.

Counting And Monitoring How Much Queries My Script Used

Actually there happens more than single query behind the scene. They are both for getting some needed data and also for updating or creating or inserting data. Say for post terms wp_insert_post() get those data by query. So, where you’re assuming that it should run 40,000 query it actually run more than that. Please have … Read more

Update postdata without creating duplicate on wp_insert_post from RSS feed

You can save AdvertID with your post and use it to check if the job was imported before. /** * Gets a job by AdvertId. * * @param string $advert_id The AdvertId. * @return WP_Post|bool The job or <false> if no job is found. */ function get_job_by_advert_id( $advert_id ) { $args = array( ‘post_type’ => … Read more

How to Create Content Remotely

You can try WP-CLI, WordPress Command Line Interface. If your pre-processed archive is a set of files, you’ll be able to create future posts to be published on specified dates utilizing these files in batch. All you need to use WP-CLI remotely is SSH terminal and, maybe, some scripting skills. See also Smashing Magazine review.

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