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1. forexfilms.com
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   Posted 4 months ago #

   I've come to a brick wall trying to set the featured image of a post with PHP. I'm using wp_insert_post() to make the post but I don't see any option to set the featured image. I also can't seem to find a function to set it.

   What I specifically want to do was add a featured image from a url. The theme I'm using supports featured images and I'm currently manually entering them into posts.

2. forexfilms.com
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   $wp_filetype = wp_check_filetype($filename, null);
   $attachment = array(
   	'post_mime_type' => $wp_filetype['type'],
   	'post_title' => $filename,
   	'post_content' => '',
   	'post_status' => 'inherit'
   );
   
   $attach_id = wp_insert_attachment( $attachment, $thumbnail, $post_id );
   // you must first include the image.php file
   // for the function wp_generate_attachment_metadata() to work
   require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/image.php');
   $attach_data = wp_generate_attachment_metadata( $attach_id, $thumbnail );
   wp_update_attachment_metadata( $attach_id, $attach_data );
   
   // add featured image to post
   add_post_meta($post_id, '_thumbnail_id', $attach_id);

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