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.
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.
The best way to do this is, write the above code in your themes function.php. In this way you will have access to all the WP inbuilt functions, hooks, actions etc. Then use Cronjob Scheduler plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/cronjob-scheduler/ to run your function periodically.
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htmlspecialchars() only converts &, “, ‘, < and >. To also convert (encode, really) accented characters, you need to use htmlentities(), and depending on the rest of your setup you may also have to specify which encoding to use. So: $content = htmlspecialchars( $text, ENT_QUOTES|ENT_SUBSTITUTE, ‘UTF-8’ ); (Substitute ‘ISO-8859-1’ for ‘UTF-8’ if necessary, though it … Read more
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