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For whatever reason wp_insert_post doesn't work for a custom post type.

Here's the code snippet I'm using.

$new_post = array(
    'post_type' => 'rsp_synonym',
    'post_title' => wp_strip_all_tags( $row['word'] ),
    'post_date' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s'),
    'post_author' => 2,
    'post_content' => '',
    'post_status' => 'publish',
    'comment_status' => 'open',
    'ping_status' => 'open'
);

$post_id = wp_insert_post( $new_post );

if (is_wp_error($post_id)) {
    $errors = $post_id->get_error_messages();
    foreach ($errors as $error) {
        echo "- " . $error . "<br />";
    }
}

Strange enough, it doesn't even return a WP_Error using the if (is_wp_error($post_id)) conditional. But still, no posts are being added.

The custom post type named as rsp_synonym has been registered before using this call.

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  • Did you try this function with user sessions.?. Sometimes it requires strong user sessions to submit a post.
    – Kvvaradha
    Dec 26, 2015 at 1:31

2 Answers 2

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Try add the second parameter like:

$post_id = wp_insert_post( $new_post, true );

If it still won't work, please var_dump the $post_id and paste here.

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  • Hi, thanks! That did help a lot. As I'm using mysql_connect and mysql_select_db in my script in order to get data from a DB different than the one WP uses, it seems that wp_insert_post changes its DB connection too. Weird.
    – oschloebe
    Feb 15, 2014 at 14:03
  • @oschloebe how did you fix this? Sep 9, 2020 at 8:19
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Instead of wp_insert_posts, create your own "call" using $wpdb which you can then set your own database e.g.

$table_name = $wpdb->prefix . 'tablename';
$wpdb->insert( 
 $table_name, 
 array(
    // data to add
 ) 
);

You can read more on custom tables at http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Tables_with_Plugins

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