Title: Direct DB Insert
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Direct DB Insert

 *  [chrisman826](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisman826/)
 * (@chrisman826)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/direct-db-insert/)
 * hello. ive searched for this and found one other post but it wasnt really what
   i was looking. Here is my q tho. Im going to make a direct insert into the database
   so that i can post new articles externally. The reason I am doing this is quite
   longwinded so I wont go into details, but it is my beleif that it the best way
   to achieve what i need to do. if you want more details ill tell ya. my point 
   is, the insert will not be a problem, insert into wp_posts blah blah. and the
   catagorys. I am mostly concerned about the postmeta. see when i post an article
   through the sub panel of course WP makes all this nice fanct stuff in the postmeta
   table like :
    “a:6:{s:15:”itunes:subtitle”;s:15:”##PostExcerpt##”;s:14:”itunes:
   summary”;s:15:”##PostExcerpt##”;s:15:”itunes:keywords”;s:17:”##WordPressCats##”;
   s:13:”itunes:author”;s:10:”##Global##”;s:15:”itunes:explicit”;s:2:”No”;s:12:”
   itunes:block”;s:2:”No”;}” with the meta key “podPressPostSpecific” sometimes 
   it is the same, and it seams sometimes its different. like a “_enclosement” or“
   enclosure” with a flag. i dont want to lose this stuff because I fear i may lose
   SEO without all that crazy stuff. I want to keep it automated by WP incase it
   has some kind of system that gives keys to certain things. BTW I am using the
   autometa Plugin too. do you think it would be possible to insert new articles
   externally and let WP take care of the postmeta data. I mean i suppose if i really
   wanted to i could just program my insert query script to do it, but I am a lazy
   SoB and I am looking for the easiest way possible. any help is appreciated. thanx.
 * p.s. sry if this is in the wrong section i didnt really know what section to 
   put it in

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/direct-db-insert/#post-484789)
 * what about wp_post2cat? You going to skip that one?
 * You don’t want to go into details about your reasoning… but have you at least
   considered a [Weblog_Client](http://codex.wordpress.org/Weblog_Client)?
 *  Thread Starter [chrisman826](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisman826/)
 * (@chrisman826)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/direct-db-insert/#post-484793)
 * no, im not going to skip wp_post2cat that wont be a problem. weblog client wont
   work because i need to integrate with a web application that i am custom designing.
   here are some details:
    there is actually a seperate site that clients will be
   filling out a form, the form is submitted and stored in a database, which i view
   from my admin panel, and i then choose to publish it, in which case the article
   is directly inserted into the wp databse.
 * it would be nice to just use the function that WP uses to insert a post, but 
   which one would that be?
 *  Thread Starter [chrisman826](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisman826/)
 * (@chrisman826)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/direct-db-insert/#post-484798)
 * or pehaps i can just utilize xmlrpc? i dont really know what that is but i will
   guess that it is for doing stuff like what i need :P. more research to do!
 *  Thread Starter [chrisman826](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisman826/)
 * (@chrisman826)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/direct-db-insert/#post-484803)
 * ok wow i have it all figured out now, im going to write a killer script, ill 
   post it up when i finish maybe someone else will want to use it??
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/direct-db-insert/#post-484826)
 * By all means, share a link to your script when done. Did you go with the xmlrpc
   option?

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 * Last reply from: [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/direct-db-insert/#post-484826)
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