Title: adding post and postmeta using custom php file?
Last modified: January 1, 2017

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# adding post and postmeta using custom php file?

 *  [daimaku](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daimaku/)
 * (@daimaku)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-and-postmeta-using-custom-php-file/)
 * hello, i’m trying to add posts and postmeta using a custom php file that i have
   created and uploaded to my server, i found some pages that shows the code that
   i need to use, but i have tried and didn’t work, this is the code that i’m using:
 *     ```
       <?php 
           require( 'my_domain/wordpress_root/wp-load.php');
   
           $title_add="testing php post";
           $content_add="<p align='justify'>just testing the add post using custom php</p>";
   
           // Create post object
           $my_post = array(
              'post_id'	   => 22;
              'post_title'    => $title_add,
              'post_content'  => $content_add,
              'post_status'   => 'publish',
              'post_author'   => 1,
              'post_category' => array( 8,39 )
           );
   
           // Insert the post into the database
           wp_insert_post( $my_post );
           add_post_meta(22,'_testing_post_meta_add','just text to let see if this is working')
   
           function add_post_meta( $post_id, $meta_key, $meta_value, $unique = false ) {
               // Make sure meta is added to the post, not a revision.
               if ( $the_post = wp_is_post_revision($post_id) )
                   $post_id = $the_post;
   
               return add_metadata('post', $post_id, $meta_key, $meta_value, $unique);
           }
       ?>
       ```
   
 * on my server this is not working, will be very useful if someone point to my 
   to a working php code sample to make this working.
 * please take in consideration that i’m not a programmer, but i have some basic
   knowledge about php.
 * thank you in advance for all your help.

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-and-postmeta-using-custom-php-file/#post-8610624)
 * HTML URLs do not work with require and include statements, it needs to be a path.
   In any case, requiring wp-load.php is a bad practice, it will fail to work on
   many installations. There’s really only 3 accepted ways to initiate the WP environment
   for external requests. The simplest is to make your code page into a [custom page template](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/template-files-section/page-templates/#creating-custom-page-templates-for-global-use),
   then create a page based on that template in order to have a permalink to request.
   The other options are AJAX and sending requests through admin-post.php.
 *  Thread Starter [daimaku](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daimaku/)
 * (@daimaku)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-and-postmeta-using-custom-php-file/#post-8614957)
 * i tried to follow your instructions, i have downloaded the page.php from my theme
   and i have added my custom code after the page code and before the end of the
   page, like this:
 *     ```
       <?php /* Template Name: CustomPageT1 */ ?>
       <?php get_header(); ?>
       	<div id="primary" class="content-area">
   
       	    <main id="main" class="site-main" role="main">
   
       	        <?php
   
       	        // Start the loop.
   
       	        while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
   
       	            // Include the page content template.
   
       	            get_template_part( 'template-parts/content', 'page' );
   
   
       	            // If comments are open or we have at least one comment, load up the comment template.
       	            if ( comments_open() || get_comments_number() ) {
       	                comments_template();
       	            }
   
       	            // End of the loop.
       	        endwhile;
       	        ?>
   
       	    	    </main><!-- .site-main -->
   
       	    <?php get_sidebar( 'content-bottom' ); ?>
   
       	</div><!-- .content-area -->
       	<!-- custom code -->
       	<?php
               $title_add="testing php post";
               $content_add="<p align='justify'>just testing the add post using custom php</p>";
   
               // Create post object
               $my_post = array(
                  'post_id'	   => 22,
                  'post_title'    => $title_add,
                  'post_content'  => $content_add,
                  'post_status'   => 'publish',
                  'post_author'   => 1,
                  'post_category' => array( 8,39 )
               );
   
               // Insert the post into the database
               wp_insert_post( $my_post );
               add_post_meta(22,'_testing_post_meta_add','just text to let see if this is working');
   
               function add_post_meta( $post_id, $meta_key, $meta_value, $unique = false ) {
                    // Make sure meta is added to the post, not a revision.
                   if ( $the_post = wp_is_post_revision($post_id) )
                       $post_id = $the_post;
                    return add_metadata('post', $post_id, $meta_key, $meta_value, $unique);
               }
           ?>
           <!-- end custom code -->
   
       	<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
   
       	<?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   
 * but it didn’t work, any help or tip will be very useful.
 * thanks in advance!
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-and-postmeta-using-custom-php-file/#post-8615782)
 * Your code needs a few adjustments. Don’t supply a post ID when inserting a new
   post, the insert post function will assign the next available ID and return it
   upon successful insertion. To add related post meta, assign that returned ID 
   to a variable, then verify that it’s not a WP_Error object (indicating the post
   insertion failed). If not an error object, use the ID in adding the post meta.
 * You need to rename add_post_meta() because there’s already a WP function by that
   name. It’s a good idea to add your plugin’s or theme’s (or your own) initials
   to all functions and classes to avoid conflicts with other code.
 * With those adjustments, everything seems to work fine. Here’s some other details
   that I may have glossed over that you need to address for this to all work.
 * Add this code page to your theme’s folder. It can be any name with a PHP extension,
   as long as it doesn’t already exist.
 * Create a new page. Assign a title, and content along the lines of “A new post
   was just created!” is not required, but a good idea IMO. Select “CustomPageT1”
   as the template for the page. Publish it.
 * Anytime someone views this page, your code will run and insert a new post. It’d
   probably be a good idea to add code that checks the logged in user is you. If
   someone requesting the page is not logged in or is not you (or someone authorized
   to add posts), either skip over the insertion code or die with a message like“
   This page is not for you.” As it is now, any search bot scraping your site could
   be adding new posts!

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