How to insert a post into WordPress database programatically?

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web20donkey 64 September 3, 2020 0 Comments

I have created a crawler and now I need to insert some WordPress posts programmatically into the database.

Is there any function in WordPress that can do that?

Thanks to all.

Radu Simion Answered question September 3, 2020

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Radu Simion · Answer 1 · 2020-09-03T16:18:24+00:00

You can use the wp_insert_post function in order to to this programatically.

Something like this:

// The post data
$post = array(
    'post_title'    => 'This is the post title',
    'post_content'  => 'This is the post content.',
    'post_status'   => 'publish', //post status publish or draft
    'post_author'   => 1, //1 is admin
    'post_category' => array( 5,17 ) // an array of post categories ID
);
  // use wp_insert_post to insert your post into the database.
wp_insert_post( $post );

This functions accept a lot of parameters according to WordPress.org

Here it’s a list from WordPress.org with all the parameters that you can pass in the $post array above

‘ID’
(int) The post ID. If equal to something other than 0, the post with that ID will be updated. Default 0.
‘post_author’
(int) The ID of the user who added the post. Default is the current user ID.
‘post_date’
(string) The date of the post. Default is the current time.
‘post_date_gmt’
(string) The date of the post in the GMT timezone. Default is the value of $post_date.
‘post_content’
(mixed) The post content. Default empty.
‘post_content_filtered’
(string) The filtered post content. Default empty.
‘post_title’
(string) The post title. Default empty.
‘post_excerpt’
(string) The post excerpt. Default empty.
‘post_status’
(string) The post status. Default ‘draft’.
‘post_type’
(string) The post type. Default ‘post’.
‘comment_status’
(string) Whether the post can accept comments. Accepts ‘open’ or ‘closed’. Default is the value of ‘default_comment_status’ option.
‘ping_status’
(string) Whether the post can accept pings. Accepts ‘open’ or ‘closed’. Default is the value of ‘default_ping_status’ option.
‘post_password’
(string) The password to access the post. Default empty.
‘post_name’
(string) The post name. Default is the sanitized post title when creating a new post.
‘to_ping’
(string) Space or carriage return-separated list of URLs to ping. Default empty.
‘pinged’
(string) Space or carriage return-separated list of URLs that have been pinged. Default empty.
‘post_modified’
(string) The date when the post was last modified. Default is the current time.
‘post_modified_gmt’
(string) The date when the post was last modified in the GMT timezone. Default is the current time.
‘post_parent’
(int) Set this for the post it belongs to, if any. Default 0.
‘menu_order’
(int) The order the post should be displayed in. Default 0.
‘post_mime_type’
(string) The mime type of the post. Default empty.
‘guid’
(string) Global Unique ID for referencing the post. Default empty.
‘post_category’
(array) Array of category IDs. Defaults to value of the ‘default_category’ option.
‘tags_input’
(array) Array of tag names, slugs, or IDs. Default empty.
‘tax_input’
(array) Array of taxonomy terms keyed by their taxonomy name. Default empty.
‘meta_input’
(array) Array of post meta values keyed by their post meta key. Default empty.

Hope this helps.

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