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Faster way to wp_insert_post & add_post_meta in bulk

I have a csv file that I want to insert that consists of ~1,500 rows and 97 columns. It takes about 2-3 hours to do a full import and I'd like to improve this if there is a way. Currently for each ...
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Proper formatting of post_date for wp_insert_post?

What is the proper way to define the post date when submitting a post from the front end using wp_insert_post (Trac)? My snippet now is publishing with the mysql time... if (isset ($_POST['date'])) ...
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HTML Entities in Post Title

I'm inserting posts into wordpress using a script which is loaded through CRON. Before inserting each post I am checking whether the post with the same title exists or not. Below is the snippet I'm ...
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Add a default meta_value to new posts

I have a page template that allows users to create and update posts from the front end. I also am using 2 plugins, 1 that allows the user to rate posts from 1-5 stars and another that allows them to ...
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wp_insert_post disable HTML filter

I have input value "<iframe>....</iframe>" (param 'post_content'). When i execute wp_insert_post, function cut off my tag. How to disable HTML filter in wp_insert_post ?
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Check if Post Title exists, Insert post if doesn't, Add Incremental # to Meta if does

I already have a function where a user submits a form and creates a custom post... <?php $postTitle = $_POST['post_title']; $submit = $_POST['submit']; if(isset($submit)){ global $user_ID; ...
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how can I set the post author of a post I just created with php?

I'm using php to dynamically create a custom post, and I need the author to be someone other than the logged in user. I found this ...
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Front end posting, not working wp_redirect with 'cannot modify header information' error

Im trying to make front end posting page but, sometime 'wp_redirect' is not working with 'cannot modify header information' error. adding data is working well but I don't know why is working well ...
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Plugin to create Posts and Forums then choose category and parent forum

I need to create a plugin for a customer that will help him create posts and forums and place them in a category and choose if it's a parent or a child forum. Just created a GitHub Repo for my files ...
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How To Disable Comments On New Page

I am writing a plugin that upon activation, it creates a few new pages. On these pages, I want to disable the comments option. I am adding the new pages via the code below: $page['post_type'] = ...
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Alternative to new_to_publish Hook for Custom Statuses

I am looking for the right hook to use for sending out an email notice when a post is inserted. However, I am using custom statuses (in this case 'holding') which doesn't seem to get hit with the ...
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How to use `wp_insert_user` & `wp_insert_post` simultaneously without `headers already sent` error?

I'm creating a front end posting form using wp_insert_post that asks a user for three basic fields: their first and last name and their email address. If the user is logged in I pre-populate the text ...
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Is it possible to add posts and images (auto resize) for custom post types with a script?

I have a specific need to import many post with featured images into a custom post type. The issue is, I need this to be a script because it runs off of another system that collects all the data. I ...
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preventing the duplicate wp_insert_post

Right of the bat, let me say that this is not the same question as I posted the other day ( that is duplicate posts when trying to update a post using the wp_insert_post. ) Cause, in that question, ...
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wp_insert_post - duration

i try to import a custom DB to the WP DB with about 2000 rows (custom post type). the problem is that the insert by wp_insert_post takes about a second per insert. Is this normal ? Is there a ...
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Deleting terms from the Wordpress wp terms table

what wp function do i use so that I can delete a term without worrying about the related tables such as wp term relationships and wp term taxonomy? Also if a post has a relationship to the deleted ...
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how to add datas in taxonomy to post with wp_insert_post

how to add datas in taxonomy to post with wp_insert_post this is my code but it is saved in my texonomy draft,why? i have given post_type=publish. $my_post = array( 'post_title' => ...
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Somehow adding to “Insert Into URL” posts are contradicting each other

I added a second upload image ( doc_thumb_box ). They both work perfectly independent of each other. But when the second one is added, the first one (doc_uri_box ) no longer pastes the value of the ...
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Trying to save custom post type from frontend partially working

I've created the following custom post type (lugares means places) with a custom taxonomy of tacos and it works fine form the backend: /** * Custom post-type lugares **/ add_action('init', ...
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WP Cron is “half-failing” to insert posts

I built a plugin for my company, which basically goes to tube sites, scrapes them for content, and posts them automatically in whatever state is defined (publish, draft, future, etc). Now, everything ...
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Using wp_insert_post with WP Network in a cron script

I have network of sites, and I need to import data into them via a cron job. Obviously wp_insert_post is meaningless in this case, since i'm not in a blog...i'm in a cron script. I also read that ...
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How can I correctly redirect user to the submitted post and define a template for each new post in Wordpress?

What I want to do is to create a simple front-end post submit form, for every different type of post I will include in my Wordpress app. For example there will be articles, events, quick messages and ...
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Conditional wp_mail statement on post

I am currently posting from the front end using a similar model as http://voodoopress.com/2011/03/review-of-posting-from-front-end-form/. I want to send an email to certain addresses based on the ...
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How to prevent duplicate posts with wp_insert_post on single.php?

I'm getting a really strange bug (WP 3.1.3). My goal is to have users create a new post simply by landing on a single post. In order to make that happen, I have the following code in my single.php: ...
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front end posting

this source works with upload image, if without image upload, it works but 'redirect' doesn't work. what should I do?? Please let me know.. many thanks! if( 'POST' == $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] ...
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How do I pass an array as an argument to a WP-CLI command?

I want to use WP-CLI to create some new posts with custom taxonomy terms assigned. The challenge is that wp_insert_post's tax_input argument only accepts arrays, which I would have to specify on the ...
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install.php Custom Taxonomy Term not being added to custom post

So I am stuck on this problem that I am facing when creating a custom taxonomy term in a install.php file. So I am running a WP multisite, and upon new blog creations, I am trying to auto create ...
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How to set featured image to custom post from outside programmatically

I am trying to fetch and insert images outside the wordpress environment to a custom post via PHP. How to move/upload that image to wordpress upload directory year date folder format just like ...
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Post content not showing some content

I'm inserting posts by wp_insert_post function. It works like first a post is created to get its id then an image is attached to that post id. I attach images by media sideload function. Here is the ...
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Script timeout when importing/inserting > 45-50 posts from an external table

Wondering if anyone can spot the obvious mistake or give me some guidance on where I'm going wrong. I should also state this is my first plugin with Wordpress, so I'm sure I have overlooked ...
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Omitted Content After Post-Publish Insertion

I have a string that contains $thehtml but whenever I insert it manually into a custom post it appears that wordpress alters/strips down the html.... I've already tested/outputted $thehtml string in a ...
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Add Page With Parent ID

I am writing a plugin that upon activation creates a set of pages. The first page that I create I want to be the parent of the rest of the pages that are added. For some reason, this is not working. ...
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Import Dummy Content and Post Thumbnails

I am setting up a small dummy content plugin. What I would like to do is import several posts using wp_insert_post. Then I would like to import several images using wp_insert_attachment and then ...
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Yet another wp_insert_post infinite loop. What is wrong?

I am writing a plugin that enables subscribed users to submit posts of a custom type, and I am trying to implement this feature via shortcodes. Now the problem is that instead of inserting one post, ...
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Front end Form submission

I am using the front end form to insert the posts. The code i am using is if( 'POST' == $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD' ] && !empty( $_POST['action' ] ) && $_POST['action' ] == ...
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How to change all titles of a specific category?

I want to change all titles of posts from a specific category to a static one and don't want to change the rest. I have tried this code (based on this question but it doesn't work: ...
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Insert post from frontend form

I am trying to insert post from frontend form i have different fields and i also want to upload an image. But the problem is that all othere data store except image so here is my code if( 'POST' == ...
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wp_insert_post memory consumption

I'm using wp_insert_post in a loop to insert 500 posts in a new WP install. It works quickly, and memory usage is from 25M to 28M. The next run of a second batch of 500 posts, takes the memory from ...
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wordpress apply filters and is singular()

I'd like to know whether anybody has heard of , or created a workaround to the following problem: let's say there is a plugin which has code like this, add_filter('the_content'.'some_func'); ...
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Inserting post_id into guid before wp_insert_post

I would like to insert data into the wp_posts table with the inserted post_id in the 'guid' for a record that doesn't already exist. Below is the closest I've gotten but this doesn't work ...
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How to update post parent?

I have an array of image id's and i want assign them to the specific post: foreach ($image_ids as $image_id) var_dump(wp_insert_post(array('ID' => $image_id, 'post_parent' => ...
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Upload image and assign it's id to post

At the moment i am working on database conversation script from other cms to Wordpress and faced one problem: I have a list of images, so i need to upload it to Wordpress, after it receive new link, ...
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Organizing uploaded media with wp_insert_post() and wp_handle_upload according to time parameter

I'm retroactively creating a post with wp_insert_post() and attaching a featuring image to it. I need the image to go into the folder that corresponds to the post's publishing date. I'm using time ...
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Programmatically adding posts

I'm about to create parser which would be inserting new custom posts. So, it's pretty simple global $user_ID; $new_post = array( 'post_title' => 'My New Post', 'post_content' => 'Lorem ...
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Insert new post for each user infinite loop error

I wrote this little function to automatically create a post for every user of the blog but it creates an infinite loop (I disabled it to stop it creating new posts). I'm not very skilled in php, I ...
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wp_insert_post inserts duplicate posts [closed]

I use wp_insert_post to create a post (custom post type) in a callback function of GravityForms (which definitely fires only once). The function creates two posts: An Article ("post") as draft (I set ...
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wp_insert_post does not write my post_name

i tried to generate a page via wp_insert_post. That works fine except that the post_name is always written with the same value as the post_title. Here comes the code snippet: // Create homesite if ...
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Fire a hook programmatically

Is it possible to fire a wordpress hook programmatically? Specifically I'd like to have control of wp-insert-post.
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How to prevent duplicate slugs for wp_insert_post?

I have a function that creates a page when I create a post (so as to construct parent-child relationship trees). I'm using the $title of the post to create the page and this also creates a duplicate ...
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wp_insert_post with POST data

I found some code on this site for wp_insert_post and I got it working. I did find the post in the category where I would expect it to be. Then I changed the code example to include information from ...