WordPress comes with lots of handy functions and some of these functions arewp_insert_post() and wp_insert_comment() which has the power to add your data programmatically, in this article; I’ll show you how you can easily add posts and comments to your WordPress site.
To insert post
This snippet is use to insert post programmatically.
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<?php
// Create post object
$my_post = array(
‘post_title’ => ‘Your post title’,
‘post_content’ => ‘Your post content goes here’,
‘post_status’ => ‘publish’,
‘post_author’ => 1,
‘post_category’ => array( 8,39 )
);
// Insert the post into the database
wp_insert_post( $my_post );
?>
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Note: The wp_insert_post() return the post ID if if the post is successfully added to the database. On failure, it returns 0 if $wp_error is set to false.
Syntax
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<?php wp_insert_post( $post, $wp_error ); ?>
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Parameters
- post_title: The post title.
- post_content: The content of the post
- post_status: The post status (published, draft, etc.)
- post_author: ID of the post author
- post_type: Page, Post or Custom post type
- post_category: Single category or an Array of category ID’s
If you wish to remove HTML, JavaScript, and PHP tags from the post_title and any other fields, you can use otherwordpress built-in function wp_strip_all_tags().
Update the above post title into this line of code
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‘post_title’ => wp_strip_all_tags( ‘Your post title’ ),
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To insert comment
This snippet use to inserts a comment to the database.
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<?php
$time = current_time(‘mysql’);
$data = array(
’comment_post_ID’ => 1,
’comment_author’ => ‘admin’,
’comment_author_email’ => ‘admin@admin.com’,
’comment_author_url’ => ‘http://sutanaryan.com/’,
’comment_content’ => ‘Comment content goes here’,
’user_id’ => 1,
’comment_author_IP’ => ’127.0.0.1′,
’comment_agent’ => ‘Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)’,
’comment_date’ => $time,
’comment_approved’ => 1,
);
// Insert the comment into the database
wp_insert_comment($data);
?>
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Note: The wp_insert_comment() return new commend ID if the comment is successfully added to the post/database.
Parameters
comment_post_ID:ID of the commented postcomment_author:Name of the comment authorcomment_author_email:Email address of the comment authorcomment_author_url:Website of the comment authorcomment_content:Message of the commentcomment_author_IP:IP address of the comment authorcomment_agent:User agent of the commenter browsercomment_date:Date of the commentcomment_date_gmt:GMT date of the commentcomment_approved:1 for approve or 0 for “awaiting moderation”
That’s it, if you have suggestion, opinion use the comment below to share your idea.
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