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1. supahoopsa
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   This is a cutdown version of the code I am using to pull data from a database and insert into WP as a post

   <?php
   
   require('wp-blog-header.php');
   
   $post_title = $title;
   $post_status = 'publish';
   $post_date= current_time('mysql');
   $post_date_gmt= current_time('mysql', 1);
   $post_author=1;
   
   $post_content="Blahblahblah";
   
   $category_slug = $country; 
   
   $post_category=array($category_ID);
   
   $tags_input= array($mytags);
   
   $post_data = compact('post_content','post_title','post_date','post_date_gmt','post_author','post_category', 'post_status', 'tags_input');
   $post_data = add_magic_quotes($post_data);
   $post_ID = wp_insert_post($post_data);
   
   if ( is_wp_error( $post_ID ) )
   echo "\n" . $post_ID->get_error_message();
   }
   ?>

   My question is...

   I now need to populate a custom data field in wp_postmeta

   Custom field will be called "photourl" and data held in script as $picurl

   Is there an easy way of doing this ?

2. supahoopsa
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   No replies :(

   Is his harder than I'd imagined

3. westondeboer
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   I was looking around for modifying the date properly on inserting posts and found this old post. I hope you figured it out! But if not, it is very simple and all you need is the post id and you get it wit the above code.

   $post_ID will be the post id from the code above and to update post meta just do this

   update_post_meta($post_ID, 'custom_field_name', $custom_field_item);

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