Adding attachment to post using wp_insert_post

  • wheremyfilesat.com

    (@wheremyfilesatcom)


    14 years, 8 months ago

    Hi all,
    couple weeks ago i got my first wordpress site up and running, now im trying to make a custom home page for it.

    I have a bash script on my server that produces a php page to call wordpresses wp_insert_post function, this works fine.

    However, im using a plugin on my home page to list post from specific categories, this plugin inserts a thumbnail next to the the post.

    but im having trouble adding a thumbnail to my post, using the script. if i create a post manually and choose the ‘set featured image’ button on the post creation page my thumbnail shows up.

    Heres what i have so far, this will insert the image into the wordpress media gallery, but i cant get it to add to the post.

    <?php
  require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-includes/functions.php');
  require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/image.php');
  include_once"wp-config.php";
  include_once"wp-load.php";
  include_once"wp-includes/wp-db.php";

  $filename = "http://188.72.223.152/wheremyfilesat/wp-content/uploads/xelb1cnn.jpg";
  $wp_filetype = wp_check_filetype(basename($filename), null );
  $attachment = array(
     'post_mime_type' => $wp_filetype['type'],
     'post_title' => preg_replace('/\.[^.]+$/', '', basename($filename)),
     'post_content' => '',
     'post_status' => 'inherit'
  );
  $attach_id = wp_insert_attachment( $attachment, $filename, 866 );

  $thumb_attach_attr = wp_get_attachment_image_src( $attach_id );

  $postmeta_id = add_post_meta(866, 'thumbnail', $thumb_attach_attr[0]);

  // you must first include the image.php file
  // for the function wp_generate_attachment_metadata() to work
  $attach_data = wp_generate_attachment_metadata( $attach_id, $filename );
  wp_update_attachment_metadata( $attach_id, $attach_data );
?>

    866 is the id of the post i want the thumbnail inserted to

    Ive almost have my page setup the way i want, its this little thing that is driving me crazy
    thanks

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  • refulez

    (@refulez)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-and-resize-image-thumbnails-with-images-taken-from-custom-fields?replies=7

    Thread Starter wheremyfilesat.com

    (@wheremyfilesatcom)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    omg thnx so much, that had been driving me crazy for sooo long

    i was missing one simple line
    set_post_thumbnail( 866, $attach_id );

    i must have missed that on the codex somehow

    here my final code incase it helps anyone

    $post_id = 866; // this value is retrived with '$post_id = wp_insert_post(....)'
  $filename = "http://www.wheremyfilesat.com/wp-content/uploads/xelb1cnn.jpg";
  $wp_filetype = wp_check_filetype(basename($filename), null );
  $attachment = array(
     'post_mime_type' => $wp_filetype['type'],
     'post_title' => preg_replace('/\.[^.]+$/', '', basename($filename)),
     'post_content' => '',
     'post_status' => 'inherit'
  );

  $attach_id = wp_insert_attachment( $attachment, $filename, $post_id );

  $attach_data = wp_generate_attachment_metadata( $attach_id, $filename );
  wp_update_attachment_metadata( $attach_id, $attach_data );

  set_post_thumbnail( $post_id, $attach_id );

    Thanks again

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