I'm writing a plug-in in which I'm updating a post content and create a custom field using
add_post_meta($post->ID, 'thesis_post_image', 'http://www.nurseryrhymesonline.net/images/' . $meta);
$my_post = array(
'ID' => $post->ID,
'post_content' => $cont
);
wp_update_post( $my_post );
It is working fine and the content and the custom fields are exactly as I wanted BUT although I can see the content and the custom field at the post edit page it seems like not updating the DB unless I manually hit the Update button.
I tried without any success have a new loop in which I changing the post status to 'draft' and back to 'published' and also to 'private' and back to 'published' and even 'pending' and back BUT nothing helped and it doesn't simulate the manual clicking on the update button.
Any Idea how to simulate clicking on Update button from a plug-in
I've found in the past that using $post->ID does not work very well in a plugin. Maybe get_the_id() will help. Codex here.
Related
I am developing this plugin that admin can add a user in the backend and when user is created, plugin can automatically generate one custom post which I have added to the theme. The custom post will store user ID that is just created (or if it is possible make that user an author of the post)
I wonder if what I have mentioned above is possible practically. If anybody has any better advice, I am open for any suggestions.
Thank you in advance
I'm not sure that a unique custom post type per user is the best way to implement what you're wanting to achieve. If you have 100 users, you will have 100 custom post types making the wp-admin a nightmare as the left menu would grow with so many menu-items.
Wouldn't it be easier to just use a normal post type and then have the page that shows the user's dashboard filter the posts to only show posts where the user is the post_author? You could then add a hook to catch when a user registers and create the example post, you could modify the code below and add it to your functions.php:
add_action( 'user_register', 'myplugin_registration_save', 10, 1 );
function myplugin_registration_save( $user_id ) {
$userPostsCategory = 3;
// Create post object
$my_post = array(
'post_title' => 'Sample Story' ),
'post_content' => 'You can edit this or create a new story',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'post_author' => user_id,
'post_category' => array( $userPostsCategory )
);
// Insert the post into the database
wp_insert_post( $my_post );
}
This method will lower the number of customisations you'd have to do to your themes and make management of the posts a little easier.
Further reading on this:
User registration hook
Inserting a post using wp_insert_post
The problem: Due to RSS conversion to posts related issues, I want to have just one blog post published in the backend of the my blog page. I am aware that I can display only the last blog post but is not what I want.
Is there a function or a plugin that could delete/remove permanently all other posts that are already published every time I publish a post?
I found a solution. I hope it helps someone with the same question:
function delete_all_posts_less_the_first() {
$posts_less_the_first = get_posts( array( 'post_type' => 'post', 'offset' => '1') );
foreach ( $posts_less_the_first as $post_less_the_first ) {
// Delete all posts less the first.
wp_delete_post( $post_less_the_first->ID, true); // Set to False if you want to send them to Trash.
}
}
add_action( 'init', 'delete_all_posts_less_the_first' );
I've created a WordPress page with a Ninja form on it that collects miscellaneous data about a product, including some uploaded images. The page with the form is accessible from the main menu by clicking the "Input" item, so the user doesn't need to access the backend to upload their product data.
I now want to put this data into a custom post type called "Listing." There will eventually be thousands of these data sets and so thousands of "Listing" pages, as people come to the site, click Input in the main menu to get to the page with the Ninja form and fill it out.
Could someone tell me how they would go about now building these listing pages from the data the form has collected?
I'm running Ninja's Front-End Post option which supposedly will create a page from the form data. This plugin has some Post creation settings where you can select the post type to create, but this isn't working for me. I would expect the submitted form data to show up under dashboard | Listings, but there's nothing there after submitting the form.
Has anyone gotten this to work?
Thanks for your help.
I think you can use only Ninja Forms without extensions, and hook directly in 'ninja_forms_after_submission' that fires after submission and allow you to use data submitted and perform actions.
This is a starter codebase to achieve your result, but needs to be customized on your needs and your form structure.
add_action( 'ninja_forms_after_submission', 'create_page_from_ninjaform' );
function create_page_from_ninjaform( $form_data ){
// your fields data
$form_fields = $form_data[ 'fields' ];
// !!! this is an example, it depends form fields in your form
$title = $form_fields[ 1 ][ 'value' ];
$content = $form_fields[ 2 ][ 'value' ];
$sample_meta_field = $form_fields[ 3 ][ 'value' ];
$new_post = array(
'post_title' => $title,
'post_content' => $content,
'post_status' => 'publish',
'post_type' => 'listing', // be sure this is the post type name
);
$new_post_id = wp_insert_post( $new_post );
update_post_meta( $new_post_id, 'your_meta_key', $sample_meta_field );
}
This code should be copied in functions.php file
Not tested of course.
Good luck ;)
The Ninja Forms Front-end Posting extension isn't really meant for displaying form submission data on the front end.
From: https://ninjaforms.com/extensions/front-end-posting/
"The Ninja Forms Front-end Posting extension gives you the power of the WordPress post editor on any publicly viewable page you choose."
If you want to show Ninja Forms submission data on the front end, you will have to retrieve them from the database with code in functions.php or by writing a plugin (recommended). You could then parse and manipulate them and create a shortcode that would allow you to insert your formatted submission data easily in Wordpress posts or pages.
Here's a link to a feature request, asking for the same thing. The author of that request posted a link to a plugin (click Download as Plugin) they wrote which may do what you want or give you further insights as to how you could implement this.
https://github.com/wpninjas/ninja-forms/issues/892
If you do not mind paying a little money for a plugin I would recommend using gravity forms rather then ninja forms for more advanced stuff like this.
I manually create a custom post type "oproep" and used a gravityforms plugin to create a custom post from type oproep when an user submits the form.
Because you use custom post type archive pages www.mysite.com/oproep will be automatically created so you already have a list of "Listings". The singe pages www.mysite.com/oproep/title will also be created for you by default, you could override these templates as well if you would like depending on your theme.
The only thing you have to do is add a few php lines to your functions.php (or write your own plugin) that adds the custom post type. The rest all works automatically.
I went so far as writing code to make users able to edit their submissions, read custom taxonomy tags in dropdowns etc. You got lots and lots of more options using gravity forms.
FrancescoCarlucci's answer is correct, but just adding an additional comment: in case you want to specify by form field IDs which fields should go where in your post, NinjaForms passes the ID as a number (in my case for example, I needed field 136 for my post title). It may have been obvious but I racked my brain for a while until I figured it out.
function create_post($form_data) {
$form_fields = $form_data[ 'fields' ];
$post_fields = array(
'post_content' => '',
'post_content_filtered' => '',
'post_title' => '',
'post_excerpt' => '',
'post_status' => 'pending',
'post_type' => 'post',
);
foreach ($form_fields as $field) {
$field_id = $field[ 'id' ];
$field_key = $field[ 'key' ];
$field_value = $field[ 'value' ];
if ($field_id == 136) {
$post_fields['post_title'] = $field_value;
}
}
wp_insert_post($post_fields, true);
}
I am using Wordpress XMLRPC to add posts to my blog.
However, after running this.
$data = array(
'title' => $title,
'description' => $content,
'post_type' => 'post',
'categories' => array($category),
'post_status' => 'publish'
);
$addedPostReturn = $this->_client->query('metaWeblog.newPost',
array(0,$username,$password,$data,1));
This adds the post fine but doesn't add the postmeta information.
If i open the post, click Update, all the default postmeta gets updated. However, I would like to add all the default postmeta information with my php script instead of manually (or else it kinda defeats the purpose).
Is there anyway, either with xmlrpc or regular wordpress functions to create the postmeta custom fields by using their default values? If not, is there a way to have the list of all the custom fields i need to manually add using the custom fields section of the metaWeblog.newPost function? (I don't want to add some but not others. I rather do a complete job)
Thanks in advance... any help is appreciated! :)
EDIT:
$postUpdateContent = array();
$postUpdateContent['ID'] = $newPostId;
$postUpdateContent['post_content'] = $sameContent;
wp_update_post( $postUpdateContent );
didn't seem to do the trick...
I have changed the default permalink of my website to Custom permalink (/%post-name%)
Now all posts require slug values .
which is not present currently.A slug is automatically added when a post is published or updated if slug screen option is unable ,but in my case now i have unable the slug option for all post earlier this was disabled and Now I want to update each post nothing want to add or delete just want to update all posts .
Currently number of posts in database is 200000,
Please suggest any efficient query or any method so that my task can be accomplished.
Thanks,
Monika
Try this plugin, it should do the job:
http://www.jerrytravis.com/598/wordpress-plugin-to-generate-post-slugs
Also this chunk of code can do the job, but you have to add some limits to avoid the script to crash due to the max limit of execution:
// get all posts
$posts = get_posts( array ( 'numberposts' => -1 ) );
foreach ( $posts as $post )
{
// check the slug and run an update if necessary
$new_slug = sanitize_title( $post->post_title );
wp_update_post(
array (
'ID' => $post->ID,
'post_name' => $new_slug
)
);
}
Credit for the code:
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/46086/regenerate-slugs-from-title-of-posts